Healthy Skepticism Library item: 11459
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Publication type: Journal Article
Humphries RF.
Industry gifting should end.
Am J Crit Care 2007 Jul; 16:(4):332
http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/cgi/content/full/16/4/332
Abstract:
Many thanks to Lisa Day and AJCC for publishing the Current Controversies column titled “Industry Gifts to Healthcare Providers: Are the Concerns Serious?“1 In the article, Day questions the appropriateness of healthcare providers accepting gifts from industries that support healthcare, such as pharmaceutical companies. She explains that anthropologists, who have studied gift exchange in this type of setting, concur that it is always seen as an exchange. If this were not the case, why would pharmaceutical and medical device sales representatives find it necessary to offer free lunches and free pens? …
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Publication Types:
Comment
Letter
MeSH Terms:
Drug Industry
Gift Giving/ethics*
Health Personnel*
Humans
United States
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Comment on:
Am J Crit Care. 2006 Sep;15(5):510-3.
