Updates from late 2022

Current Situation

• 27 professional members of the committee
• Coordinator education symposium (4/year)
• FLS educational sumposium (2/year)
• FLS guidebook renewal
• Virtual meetings with FFN

Challenges

• Comprehensive and integrated fragility fracture care is not a priority yet in healthcare policy

• Awareness among medical professionals about integrated cares for fragility fractures is still insufficient

Exemplar Initiatives and Programs

• Fragility fracture Integrated Rehabilitation Management (FIRM) program

• Discharge care plan : regional collaboration
• Home-based medical care for fragility fracture

Activities at a National Level

• The last education symposium was successfully completed last December.
• The renewal of the FLS guidebook has been completed and prepared for publication.

Plans and Area of Focus for 2023

• FLS coordinator education symposium (4 times in 2023)
• Health policy proposal for implementing integrated care of fragility fractures to clinical practice
• Building the National Hip fracture Database
• The Korean version of FLS guidebook: 2ndedition will be published
• Multicenter study for identifying feasibility and effect of FLS in Korea: ongoing
• Creation of FLS in many hospitals

Partners

• Korean Society for Bone and Mineral Research
• Korean Orhopaedic Association
• Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Korean Endocrine Society
• Korean Geriatrics Society
• Korean Society of Sarcopenia
• Korean Nutrition Society