Outi Akrén
Professor of Palliative Medicine
Center of Palliative Medicine, TUH outhir@utu.fi |
Areas of expertise
End-of-life care, cancer, palliative medicine, teaching, development of palliative medicine services
End-of-life care, cancer, palliative medicine, teaching, development of palliative medicine services
Research community or research topic
Clinical research in palliative medicine, focusing on the end-of-life care of cancer patients.
Clinical research in palliative medicine, focusing on the end-of-life care of cancer patients.
Publications 
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- The effect of palliative outpatient units on resource use for cancer patients in Finland (2023)
- Acta Oncologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of Palliative Care Decision on Use of Hospital Services in Pancreatic Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Study (2022)
- Anticancer Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Improved risk prediction of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia-model development and validation with real-world data (2022)
- Cancer Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Palliative-care nurses' and physicians' descriptions of the competencies needed in their working units (2022)
- International Journal of Palliative Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impact of the Regional Palliative Care Pathway on Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations (2021)
- Anticancer Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kohti parempaa elämän loppuvaiheen hoitoa (2021)
- Finnanest
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Nordic Specialist Course in Palliative Medicine: Evaluation and Impact on the Development of Palliative Medicine in the Nordic Countries: A Survey among Participants from Seven Courses 2003-2017 (2021)
- Journal of Palliative Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Palliatiivinen hoito – koskeeko minun potilaitani? (2021)
- Erikoislääkäri
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - End-of-life care among patients with pancreatic cancer with or without palliative intervention: a retrospective single-centre study (2020)
- Acta Oncologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Palliatiivisen lääketieteen opetus lääketieteen kandidaattien arvioimana (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The impact of the duration of the palliative care period on cancer patients with regard to the use of hospital services and the place of death: a retrospective cohort study (2020)
- BMC Palliative Care
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A predictive model of overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (2019)
- F1000Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessing the utilization of the decision to implement a palliative goal for the treatment of cancer patients during the last year of life at Helsinki University Hospital: a historic cohort study (2019)
- Acta Oncologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Does Decision-making in End-of-life Care Differ Between Graduating Medical Students and Experienced Physicians? (2019)
- In Vivo
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - EduPal-hanke uudistaa palliatiivisen lääketieteen koulutusta (2019)
- Lääkärilehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - End-of-life decisions guiding the palliative care of cancer patients visiting emergency department in South Western Finland: A retrospective cohort study (2018)
- BMC Palliative Care
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A predictive model of overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (2017)
- F1000Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - End-of-life chemotherapy use at a Finnish university hospital: a retrospective cohort study. (2017)
- Acta Oncologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How Reliable are Trial-based Prognostic Models in Real-world Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer? (2017)
- European Urology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Reply to Tuomas Mirtti and Tero Aittokallio's Letter to the Editor re: Fatemeh Seyednasrollah, Mehrad Mahmoudian, Liisa Rautakorpi, et al. How Reliable are Trial-based Prognostic Models in Real-world Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer? Eur Urol. 2017;71:838-40. Clinical Utility of Trial-estimated Prognostic Models. (2017)
- European Urology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
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