Clinical presentation and outcomes of COVID-19 in older hospitalised patients assessed by the record-based multidimensional prognostic index, a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: Older people are the most frequently hospital admitted patients with COVID-19. We aimed to describe the clinical presentation of COVID-19 among frail and nonfrail older hospitalised patients and to evaluate the potential association between frailty and clinical course, decision of treatment level with outcomes change in functional capacity and survival.

Methods: We performed a multi-center, retrospective cross-sectional cohort study examining data on clinical presentation and frailty-related domains for hospitalised people aged 75 + years with a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) test.

Non-surgically treated older women with operable early breast cancer in Denmark.

Introduction: Women ≥ 70 years of age, especially women with co-morbidity, have not achieved the same increase in survival as younger women with early breast cancer. Older patients with and without co-morbidity do not receive primary surgical treatment as often as younger women do. The primary aim of this study was to describe older women with operable early breast cancer who are not surgically treated.