Setting Up a Successful Fracture Liaison Service

After emerging on the scene in the early 2000s, fracture liaison services (FLS) have solidified their place for preventing secondary fractures.

Ultimately, the goal of an FLS is to reduce subsequent fractures, secondary care admissions, home care admissions, and boost overall health for patients who have already experienced at least one fracture, said Andrea Singer, MD, of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., speaking at a session at the 2025 American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) annual meeting.

"FLS is a way of improving our abysmal current approach [to managing patients with fractures]," added fellow panelist Neil Binkley, MD, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

While access to an FLS is somewhat limited across the U.S., the 2020 AACE o