[Influence of early hip fracture surgery in the elderly on mortality, readmissions, dependence and quality of life.].

Objective: In spite of technical advances, hip fracture causes high mortality in the elderly. We wanted to know early surgery influence to mortality during admission, one year and after five years, as well as readmissions at one month and one year. We also wanted to know how dependence and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) evolved in the twelve months of follow-up and what factors were associated with poor patient evolution.

[Validation of the "Palliative Care Difficulties Scale (PCDS)" questionnaire in the spanish population about health professionals´ difficulties in palliative care].

Objective: Knowing the difficulties in the application of palliative care would allow us to propose improvement strategies. The objective was to determine the metric properties of the Palliative Care Difficulties Scale (PCDS) translated and adapted to Spanish.

Methods: An instrumental validation study was designed in a regional hospital and primary care centers of a health district.