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The Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) was initiated in the late 1990s in Europe and then spread to North America and Australia afterwards. The Osteoporosis Liaison Service (OLS®) has been initiated in Japan. The FLS and OLS have the same aim: to prevent secondary fractures; however, the OLS also aims to prevent primary fractures in clinics and the community. The JOS created the role of an osteoporosis manager (OM), who is a coordinator for the OLS, and a total of 1,867 OMs have been approved as of March 2017. Nevertheless, there are several issues in the OLS that should be solved. |