Validation of the Fracture Risk Scale Home Care (FRS-HC) Across 4 Canadian Provinces

Fractures are a major cause of morbidity and mortality and carry a high economic burden. The Fracture Risk Scale Home Care (FRS-HC) is a standardized outcome scale for identifying home care recipients’ hip fracture risk within the next year.1 The FRS-HC had not been externally validated with a population other than the tool development sample, and its validity had not been tested in Canadian provinces outside of Ontario. Further, the FRS-HC was developed to predict the risk of hip fracture, and its accuracy for predicting other types of major osteoporotic fractures (ie, wrist, spine, humerus, pelvis) was unknown.