Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

The primary role of clinical practice guidelines is to support clinicians and patients in making evidence-based decisions for healthcare. To address priorities identified by patients, clinicians, researchers and policy-makers in the last few years, as well as changes in available evidence, we aim to update the Osteoporosis Canada clinical practice guidelines for the management of osteoporosis, published in 2010. Our team plans to hold a one-day meeting where we will bring together primary care and specialist clinicians, researchers, trainees, patient representatives and experts in guideline update methodology. The objectives of this meeting are to establish the overall structure for the guideline update process, determine procedures for broad consultations with stakeholders and explore funding opportunities. The overarching goal of this guideline update is to empower patients and clinicians in fall and fragility fracture prevention and be the foundation for the delivery of high-value care in skeletal health.