Improvement of Osteoporosis Screening among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients at Gastroenterology Fellows’ Clinics

Table 1

Demographic data, characteristics, and DEXA screening rate for IBD patients who are at risk of osteoporosis.

	Preintervention phase (12 weeks)			Postintervention phase (12 weeks)
	VA	County	All	VA	County	All
Total clinic patients	368	375	743	402	403	805
No. of IBD patients	45	35	80	46	35	81
UC	21	15	36	23	13	36
Crohn’s	22	20	42	20	22	42
Indeterminate	2	0	2	3	0	3
Male, N (%)	42 (93.3%)	13 (37.1%)	55 (68.8%)	45 (97.8%)	13 (37.1%)	58 (71.6%)
Age (years), mean ± SD	61.6 ± 15.0	46.8 ± 14.4	55.1 ± 16.5	62.7 ± 16.4	45.1 ± 12.7	55.1 ± 17.2
No. of IBD patients who met DEXA screening criteria, N (%)	29 (64.4%)	16 (45.7%)	45 (56.3%)	28 (60.9%)	19 (54.3%)	47 (58.0%)
Steroid criteria	13	14	27	11	18	29
Age criteria	19	3	22	19	1	20
Fracture criteria	0	1	1	0	2	2
Patients who received appropriate screening DEXA scan, N (%)	6 (20.7%)	7 (43.8%)	13 (28.9%)	21 (75.0%)	19 (100.0%)	40 (85.1%)

IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; UC, ulcerative colitis; SD, standard deviation; DEXA scan, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry