Healthy Skepticism Library item: 7447
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Publication type: Journal Article
Brennan TA, Rothman DJ, Blank L, Blumenthal D, Chimonas SC, Cohen JJ, Goldman J, Kassirer JP, Kimball H, Naughton J, Smelser N.
Health industry practices that create conflicts of interest: a policy proposal for academic medical centers.
JAMA 2006 Jan 25; 295:(4):429-33
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/4/429
Abstract:
Conflicts of interest between physicians’ commitment to patient care and the desire of pharmaceutical companies and their representatives to sell their products pose challenges to the principles of medical professionalism. These conflicts occur when physicians have motives or are in situations for which reasonable observers could conclude that the moral requirements of the physician’s roles are or will be compromised. Although physician groups, the manufacturers, and the federal government have instituted self-regulation of marketing, research in the psychology and social science of gift receipt and giving indicates that current controls will not satisfactorily protect the interests of patients. More stringent regulation is necessary, including the elimination or modification of common practices related to small gifts, pharmaceutical samples, continuing medical education, funds for physician travel, speakers bureaus, ghostwriting, and consulting and research contracts. We propose a policy under which academic medical centers would take the lead in eliminating the conflicts of interest that still characterize the relationship between physicians and the health care industry.
Keywords:
Publication Types:
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH Terms:
Academic Medical Centers/ethics*
Academic Medical Centers/standards
Conflict of Interest*
Drug Industry/ethics*
Drug Industry/standards
Ethics, Institutional
Ethics, Medical
Gift Giving/ethics*
Health Care Sector/ethics*
Health Care Sector/standards
Humans
Interinstitutional Relations
Interprofessional Relations/ethics*
Medical Staff, Hospital/ethics
Medical Staff, Hospital/standards
Policy Making
Public Policy
United States
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