Osteoporosis care in primary care settings: a national UK e-survey (2025)
Journal Article
Hawarden, A., Bullock, L., Cox, N. M., Nicholls, E., Protheroe, J., Jinks, C., & Paskins, Z. (in press). Osteoporosis care in primary care settings: a national UK e-survey. Archives of Osteoporosis, 20(1), Article 109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-025-01591-8

Summary: An electronic survey of 341 UK primary care staff identified barriers to evidence-based osteoporosis care including low confidence in clinical skills, the complex nature of decision-making, insufficient incentivisation and lack of systematic... Read More about Osteoporosis care in primary care settings: a national UK e-survey.

A person-centred consultation intervention to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines (iFraP): a pragmatic, parallel-group, individual randomised controlled trial protocol. (2024)
Journal Article
Bullock, L., Nicholls, E., Cherrington, A., Butler-Walley, S., Clark, E. M., Fleming, J., Leyland, S., Bentley, I., Thomas, S., Iglesias-Urrutia, C. P., Webb, D., Smith, J., Bathers, S., Lewis, S., Clifford, A., Siciliano, M., Protheroe, J., Ryan, S., Lefroy, J., Dale, N., …Paskins, Z. (2024). A person-centred consultation intervention to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines (iFraP): a pragmatic, parallel-group, individual randomised controlled trial protocol. NIHR Open Research, 4(14), 14. https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13571.1

BackgroundGood quality shared decision-making (SDM) conversations involve people with, or at risk of osteoporosis and clinicians collaborating to decide, where appropriate, which evidence-based medicines best fit the person's life, beliefs, and value... Read More about A person-centred consultation intervention to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines (iFraP): a pragmatic, parallel-group, individual randomised controlled trial protocol..