Society guideline links: Clinical densitometry

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Osteoporosis".)

International

●International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD): Official positions

Canada

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Recommendations on screening for primary prevention of fragility fractures (2023)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order DEXA (Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry) screening for osteoporosis on low risk patients (2022)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't do routine bone scans in men with low-risk prostate cancer (2021)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't repeat DEXA scans more often than every two years in the absence of high risk or new risk factors (2021)

●Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR): Technical standards for bone mineral densitometry reporting (2013)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on osteoporosis and bone mineral density (2022)

●American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American College of Endocrinology (ACE): Consensus statement on the quality of DXA scans and reports (2018)