Practice Parameters and Indications

Summarizes clinical guidelines from ISCD, ACR, and endocrine societies covering screening indications, monitoring intervals, and use after fragility fractures.

Interpreting Scores and Risk Tools

Explains T score and Z score definitions, diagnostic thresholds, and integration of BMD with fracture risk calculators such as FRAX to estimate absolute fracture probability.

Translating Guidelines into Local Protocols

Steps for adapting national guidance into local practice: define scanning sites, monitoring intervals, reporting templates, and referral thresholds for treatment or further imaging.