Chairs: JA Kanis, D Prieto-Alhambra

Members: B Abrahamsen, J Adachi, F Borgström, O Bruyère, J Carey, P Clark, C Cooper, E Curtis, E Dennison, M Diaz Curiel, HP Dimai, D Gregorie, N Harvey, M Hiligsmann, H Johansson, P Khashayar, E Lau, M Lewiecki, P Lips, R Lorenc, M Lorentzon, E McCloskey, S Ortolani, A Papaioannou, D Prieto Alhambra, S Silverman, M Sosa, P Szulc, K Ward, N Yoshimura

The Epidemiology/Quality of Life Working Group establishes projects which aim to estimate the epidemiology of osteoporosis around the world, to evaluate the impact of fragility fractures on health-related quality of life and finally to measure the direct and indirect cost of osteoporotic fractures worldwide.

• Further develop the fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX®) by increasing its international scope and its use in clinical practice/development of FRAXplus/development of FRAX2.0
• Estimate the cost and quality of life following a hip fracture, a vertebral fracture and a wrist fracture in different countries, through the International Cost and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic fractures Study (ICUROS)
• Lifecourse: importance of addressing the risk of osteoporosis across the whole lifecourse
• Provide new data on the global epidemiology and impact of osteoporotic fracture worldwide
• Screening for fracture risk
• Risk Communication on Osteoporosis (RICO) 

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11. Kanis, J.A., et al., A systematic review of hip fracture incidence and probability of fracture worldwide. Osteoporos Int, 2012. 23(9): p. 2239-56.
12. Dimai, H.P., et al., Economic burden of osteoporotic fractures in Austria. Health Econ Rev, 2012. 2(1): p. 12.
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14. Lips, P., et al., Validation of the IOF quality of life questionnaire for patients with wrist fracture. Osteoporos Int, 2010. 21(1): p. 61-70.