Osteoporosis Prescreening Risk Assessment (OPERA) Tool

Purpose: To identify a woman who should be screened for osteoporosis using the OPERA tool of Salaffi et al.

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Evaluation

Are you evaluating a postmenopausal woman?

Yes

Age of the patient

years

Body weight

Age at the onset of menopause

years

Number of fractures after age 45 years associated with minimal trauma

Daily dose of prednisone (enter 0 if none)

Duration of prednisone therapy (enter 0 if none)

months

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

OPERA score

Should the woman be screened for osteoporosis?

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors
Severity, Prognosis, Stage
- Score of Roux et al for Predicting a Vertebral Fracture in a Postmenopausal Woman with Osteoporosis and Back Pain
- FRAX® WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool

Therapy

Selection
Prevention
- Lung Disease Treated with Corticosteroids | Reducing Risk of Osteoporosis

Monitoring

Adverse Effects
- Lung Disease Treated with Corticosteroids | Reducing Risk of Osteoporosis

Specialty

Surgery, orthopedic
Endocrinology
Nutrition

Objective

clinical diagnosis
including family history for genetics
selection

ICD-10

M80 - Osteoporosis with pathological fracture
M81 - Osteoporosis without pathological fracture
M82 - Osteoporosis in diseases classified elsewhere

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Purpose: To identify a woman who should be screened for osteoporosis using the OPERA tool of Salaffi et al.

Specialty: Surgery, orthopedic, Endocrinology, Nutrition

Objective: clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics, selection

ICD-10: M80, M81, M82,

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