ABSTRACT
¼ Numerous healthcare roles can be valuable and effective participants in postfracture care programs (PFCPs) and can also serve effectively as program liaisons/champions.¼ Greatest success seems to have been achieved when a single entity provides cohesive and consistent training, coordination, shared goals, and accountability for program sites and site leaders.¼ Few PFCPs have solved what seems to be the fundamental challenge of such programs: how to maintain program effectiveness and cohesion when the patient makes the inevitable transition from acute care to primary care? Creating a partnership with shared goals with primary care providers is a challenge for every program in every location.¼ Programs located in the United States, with its predominantly "open" healthcare system, seem to lag other parts of the world in overcoming this fundamental challenge.¼ It is hoped that all PFCPs in all systems can learn from the successes of other programs in managing this critical transition from acute to primary care.
