Palliative medicine
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual (WHO 2002).
The vision for development of palliative medicine at the university of turku is to integrate it into the teaching programmes in medicine and to advance domestic and international multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research.
Contact
Phone: +358-2-3132817, +358-40-5258117 Fax: +358-2-313 E-mail: eevsal@utu.fi |
Outpatient clinic and consultations: Outpatient clinic at the Department of Oncology, Turku University Hospital; phone +358-2- 3131280, Savitehtaankatu 1, 20521 Turku, Finland