As the SARS‐CoV‐2 infection rate decreased in spring 2020, phased reopening of Danish society began, including a reopening of elite football (soccer), adhering to a strict protocol. In this study, we report the consequences of resumption of competitive play in the two best football (soccer) leagues for men in Denmark measured by number of SARS‐CoV‐2 positive players. The players were tested weekly for SARS‐CoV‐2 for 11 consecutive weeks. The test protocol comprised 26 teams with 748 players. In total, 6511 tests were done with a positivity rate of 0.06%. The incidence rate of players testing positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 was 0.53% (4/748). There were no signs of a chain of infection. We found a low incidence rate of SARS‐CoV‐2, and based on this, a controlled reopening of professional football strictly following a detailed protocol appears safe for the players.

Background The aim of this article is to describe older people’s perceptions of caring relations in the context of rural eHealth, as well as to explore how such relations can facilitate engagement in digital primary health care. There is an ongoing implementation of eHealth in Western health care, and rural areas and older people are specifically targeted. eHealth is said to be a solution to emergent problems and a technology that will facilitate people’s opportunities to achieve good and equal health. From this perspective, it is crucial that older people engage in eHealth services, but there are barriers for use, and care providers need to adapt to the preferences of older people. Methods Semi‐structured interviews with 19 individuals aged 61‐85 were conducted. The participants were using digital services at two primary healthcare centres located in northern Sweden. Qualitative content analysis was used. An important theoretical tenet was that older people’s perceptions of and engagements in eHealth are affected by the specific rural conditions. Ethical approval for the study has been obtained. Results The analysis rendered a total of three themes: in‐person interaction was central to people’s perceptions of good caring relations; patient–nurse relations were particularly emphasised; and caring relations in rural eHealth appeared to be multi‐directional and fuelled by a shared sense of rural community. Altogether, this facilitated participants’ engagement in local eHealth initiatives. Conclusions eHealth is an opportunity for primary health care and for rural communities. However, the results provide insight into matters that can affect the quality, access, and equality of rural primary health care. Participants’ engagement in eHealth was almost always facilitated by close caring relations with local Registered Nurses. Digital care needs to be approached as a combination of digital and in‐person presence. Separating digital and physical task assignments among different personnel could make older people refrain from seeking health care.

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This nationwide study showed a steady but moderate increase in the use of PEP after sexual HIV-exposure from 1998 to 2006. Time to initiation of PEP was low and the PEP prescription practice was targeted toward high risk exposures.

Infective endocarditis is a serious bacterial infection, but there are relatively few data about its occurrence and prognosis. The incidence rate, 30-d case fatality and mortality rate of infective endocarditis were estimated in this registry-based cohort study. The Danish National Registry of Patients was used to estimate national incidence rates, and information on the date of death was obtained through linkage to the Civil Registration System. The study included 3351 patients with infective endocarditis from 1980 to 1997. The incidence rate for men increased from 4 to 6 per 100,000 person-years, and for women from 3 to 4 per 100,000 person-years. The mean incidence rate varied from 1.5 per 100,000 person-years in women younger than 50 y to 15.5 in men older than 70 y. The incidence increased in most age groups but was most pronounced in younger men. The overall 30-d case fatality rate of 23% increased with age and decreased with calendar time. The mean mortality rate was 0.94 per 100,000 y and decreased in the study period in most age groups. There was an increasing incidence of infective endocarditis and an improvement in the prognosis.

What happens when similar measures are being introduced in different national contexts? This article studies the ways in which patient choice has been articulated in public and official reports on health care in the two contexts of Sweden and the UK, whose welfare systems are typically comprehended as different. Specific interest is directed towards the construction of patient positions, and policy documents are analyzed using discourse theory. The results show many similarities between the national contexts; choice is primarily articulated with individuality, autonomy, consumption, and responsibility, as well as with support from state agencies, and patient choice is relentlessly normalized as the way forward. But there are also important differences that reveal that the presuppositions differ, for example, when pinpointing the stakeholders of patient choice reforms and how the different policies work to take the well-known edges off of patient choice ideology.

We investigated the variance of liver biopsy frequency and histological findings among patients with chronic viral hepatitis attending 10 medical centres in Denmark. Patients who tested positive for HBsAg or HCV- RNA were retrieved from a national clinical database (DANHEP) and demographic data, laboratory analyses and liver biopsy results were collected. A total of 1586 patients were identified of whom 69.7% had hepatitis C, 28.9% hepatitis B, and 1.5% were coinfected. In total, 771 (48.6%) had a biopsy performed (range 33.3-78.7%). According to the Metavir classification, 29.3% had septal fibrosis (> or =F2) and 13.9% had cirrhosis (F4). The frequency of cirrhosis varied from 8.3 to 18.6% among centres, and was independently associated with age, male gender, elevated alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) and non-Danish origin. Among 141 patients with hepatitis C and known duration of infection, cirrhosis had developed in 23% after 20 y of infection. Age above 40 y was a better predictor of cirrhosis than elevated ALT. National database comparison may identify factors of importance for improved management of patients with chronic viral hepatitis.

This research seeks to better understand how older people living in sparsely populated areas learn and then use eHealth applications in their everyday lives. The study was conducted in northern Sweden and Lapland in northern Finland, the most sparsely populated areas in these countries. The study focused on the use of following eHealth services: a medication-dispensing service, a virtual health room and a self-monitoring system. Research data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observations. The study included 19 participants, aged from 63 to 89 years. The following research questions guided the study: In what ways was the respondents' learning and use of the eHealth service a social practice? How are such practices affected by cultural identities? The results show that digital selfcare technologies can be very user friendly, easy to use, and sometimes, require very little learning effort from older users. However, the results also show that engaging in eHealth and learning how to use digital self-help services requires constant learning of different competences, not just digital but also competences that are medical and administrative. In addition, the use of eHealth required support from the respondents' children, grandchildren, neighbors, and friends. Therefore, the digital self-care technologies contributed to a broader redistribution of responsibility from individual users and health and social care to informal support networks surrounding the respondents. Finally, the results indicated that respondents' motives for learning and using the digital services often expressed cultural identities that affected such conceptions.