[What is the pedagogical development function of Region East, Denmark used for?].

Implementing a reform of postgraduate medical education in Denmark (2004), a pedagogical development function (PDF) which employs clinical associate professors (CAP) was established. To evaluate the impact of the PDF and the CAP, 1,355 questionnaires were mailed to physicians in eastern Denmark: 687 (51%) replied, 114 (17%) expressed knowledge of the PDF and 75 (11%) reported a personal contact to the PDF. The rather low knowledge of the PDF may be due to the CAPs' involvement in several educational functions at the same time which may impede identification of the ''true" efforts of the CAP/PDF.

Persistence to medical treatment of osteoporosis in women at three different clinical settings--a historical cohort study.

Purpose: This study was undertaken to assess persistence with bisphosphonates and raloxifene and to identify determinants of adherence (patient age, level of information, educational status, etc.) among women with osteoporosis in three different clinical settings in Denmark.

Methods: We compared persistence to therapy in three historical cohorts of women diagnosed with osteoporosis starting therapy between January 1999 and January 2004.

[Analysis of deaths during hospitalization and after discharge from hospital].

Introduction: Analysis of deaths during and up to one month after discharge from hospital.

Materials And Methods: For 2006, all deaths during and up to one month after discharge were identified for patients admitted to hospital in Roskilde or Køge. Age, acute or planned hospitalisation, duration of in-hospital stay, department of discharge and main diagnose were registered.

Does a distal forearm fracture lead to evaluation for osteoporosis? A retrospective cohort study in 147 Danish women.

In postmenopausal women, a low-trauma distal forearm fracture is a risk factor for osteoporosis and future fracture, which indicates osteoporosis follow-up according to prevailing guidelines. We decided to determine how often women over 45 yr presenting with a low-trauma distal forearm fracture to a Danish emergency department during a 1-yr period were followed up for osteoporosis. We performed a retrospective review of hospital records and we sent the women and their general practitioners (GPs) questionnaires regarding the follow-up undertaken in primary care.

Body composition measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in patients who have undergone small-intestinal resection.

Background: Patients who have undergone resection of the small intestine have lower body weight than do healthy persons. It remains unclear whether it is the body fat mass or the lean tissue mass that is reduced.

Objective: We compared body-composition values in patients who had undergone small-intestinal resection with reference values obtained in healthy volunteers, and we studied the relation between body-composition estimates and the net intestinal absorption of energy.

Effect of cyclical intravenous clodronate therapy on bone mineral density and markers of bone turnover in patients receiving home parenteral nutrition.

Background: Patients receiving home parenteral nutrition (HPN) because of intestinal failure are at high risk of developing osteoporosis.

Objective: We studied the effect of the bisphosphonate clodronate on bone mineral density (BMD) and markers of bone turnover in HPN patients.

Design: A 12-mo, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted to study the effect of 1500 mg clodronate, given intravenously every 3 mo for 1 y, in 20 HPN patients with a bone mass T score of the hip or lumbar spine of less than -1.