Prognostic factors of 90-day mortality in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.

Introduction: Mortality due to COVID-19 is higher among elderly patients with comorbidities. Even so, prognostication in COVID-19 remains limited.

Methods: We assessed 90-day mortality stratified by comorbidities, routine biochemical markers and oxygen need in a consecutive single-centre cohort from 2 March to 2 June 2020.

[Acral ischaemia with multiple microthromboses and imminent gangrene in a 73-year-old woman with COVID-19].

This is a report of an atypical presentation of COVID-19. The patient had sparse pulmonary symptoms despite characteristic COVID-19 lesions on CT-thorax and developed severe acral ischaemic change, after a few days of hospitalisation. The condition could not be explained by classical sepsis with hypotension and hypoperfusion, disseminated intravascular coagulation, vasculitis, endocarditis or severe peripheral arteriosclerosis.

[Quality of outpatient tonsillectomy performed in ear, nose & throat practice].

In Danish healthcare there are increasing demands in the field of hospital care on performance and outcome measurement and quality improvement in relation to a number of diseases. Hitherto, corresponding measurements of quality have not been carried out among private specialized practitioners. The present project describes the development and selection of evidence-based national indicators, standards, and case mix factors in terms of prognostic factors with the purpose of measuring quality of out-patient tonsillectomy in Danish ear, nose & throat practices.