Outi Akrén
Professor of Palliative Medicine
Center of Palliative Medicine, TUH outhir@utu.fi |
End-of-life care, cancer, palliative medicine, teaching, development of palliative medicine services
Clinical research in palliative medicine, focusing on the end-of-life care of cancer patients.
- Kohti parempaa elämän loppuvaiheen hoitoa (2021)
- Finnanest
- 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
- Palliatiivinen hoito – koskeeko minun potilaitani? (2021)
- Erikoislääkäri
- End-of-life care among patients with pancreatic cancer with or without palliative intervention: a retrospective single-centre study (2020)
- Acta Oncologica
- Palliatiivisen lääketieteen opetus lääketieteen kandidaattien arvioimana (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
- 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
- A predictive model of overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (2019)
- F1000Research
- 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
- Does Decision-making in End-of-life Care Differ Between Graduating Medical Students and Experienced Physicians? (2019)
- In Vivo
- EduPal-hanke uudistaa palliatiivisen lääketieteen koulutusta (2019)
- Lääkärilehti
- 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
- A predictive model of overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (2017)
- F1000Research
- End-of-life chemotherapy use at a Finnish university hospital: a retrospective cohort study. (2017)
- Acta Oncologica
- How Reliable are Trial-based Prognostic Models in Real-world Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer? (2017)
- European Urology
- 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
- Palliatiivisessa hoidossa olevan potilaan DNR-päätös - uskallanko ottaa puheeksi? (2016)
- Duodecim
- Kipu palliatiivisessa hoidossa (2013)
- Duodecim
- Anaemia: a rare but neglected problem among Finnish patients receiving chemotherapy for solid tumours (2011)
- Supportive Care in Cancer



