Ward round communication with older patients.

Objectives: Ward round communication is essential to patient care. While communication in general with older patients is well described, little is known about how communication with older patients and their relatives at ward rounds can be optimised. Hence, this scoping review aims to provide an overview of ward round communication with older patients.

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.

Statins and Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Individuals With a History of Stroke.

Background and Purpose- It has been suggested that statins increase the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage in individuals with a history of stroke, which has led to a precautionary principle of avoiding statins in patients with prior intracerebral hemorrhage. However, such prescribing reticence may be unfounded and potentially harmful when considering the well-established benefits of statins. This study is so far the largest to explore the statin-associated risk of intracerebral hemorrhage in individuals with prior stroke.

Statins and Risk of Intracerebral Haemorrhage in a Stroke-Free Population: A Nationwide Danish Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study.

Background: Statins may increase the risk of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) in individuals with previous stroke. It remains unclear whether this applies to individuals with no history of stroke. This study is the first to explore the statin-associated risk of ICH in stroke-free individuals while considering the timing of statin initiation.

Autoimmune diseases and breast cancer recurrence: a Danish nationwide cohort study.

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) comprise a large group of heterogeneous diseases in which the immune system attacks healthy organs. Both intrinsic changes in the body and AD treatment can compromise immune function. Impaired immune function could increase the risk of recurrent cancer.

Survival of women with breast cancer in central and northern Denmark, 1998-2009.

Objective: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. The Nordic countries have relatively high survival, but Denmark has a lower survival than neighboring countries. A breast cancer screening program was introduced in 2007 and 2008 in the northern and central regions of Denmark respectively.