The impact of a musculoskeletal training program on residents’ recognition and treatment of osteoporosis

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 - Osteoporosis surrogate outcomes – crude rates

	COE Patients					Non-COE Patients					Rate Ratio
				95% CI					95% CI			95% CI
Outcome	Number of patients with event	Person-time (days)	Rate^a	LL	UL	Number of patients with event	Person-time (days)	Rate^a	LL	UL	Rate Ratio	LL	UL
Osteoporosis treatment	5	160,027	0.312	0.101	0.729	107	14,026,193	0.076	0.063	0.092	4.10	1.79	9.36
DXA	28	155,527	1.800	1.196	2.602	576	13,956,364	0.413	0.380	0.448	4.36	3.02	6.06
Osteopenia diagnosis	7	159,872	0.438	0.176	0.902	266	14,005,290	0.190	0.168	0.214	2.31	1.11	4.77
Osteoporosis diagnosis	14	159,052	0.880	0.481	1.477	174	14,014,687	0.124	0.106	0.144	7.09	4.41	11.21

^aper 10,000 patient-days
Note: CI = confidence interval, LL = lower limit, UL = upper limit, COE = Center of Excellence, DXA = dual energy X-ray absorptiometry

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