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Publication type: Journal Article

Fava GA.
Financial conflicts of interest in psychiatry.
World Psychiatry 2007 Feb; 6:(1):19-24
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1805729

Abstract:

The issue of conflicts of interest has brought clinical medicine to an unprecedented crisis of credibility. The situation of psychiatry does not appear to be different from other areas of medicine. The problems caused by the increasing financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and researchers and clinicians can be addressed only by a complex effort encompassing both the establishment of lines of support of independent researchers who are free of substantial conflicts of interest and better disclosure policies and conduct regulations as to financial ties. Such effort requires a bold shift from current, largely inadequate strategies. In the long run it may entail, however, substantial advantages to patients, clinicians, researchers, the health industry and the civil society at large. Psychiatry, in view of its humanistic and social roots, may lead this effort.

Keywords:
Conflicts of interest, disclosure, psychotropic drugs, practice guidelines, psychiatry

Notes: See commentary “Conflicting interests and doing right” on page 25. See commentary “One flew over the conflict of interest nest” on page 26. See commentary “Psychiatry: from interest in conflicts to conflicts of interest” on page 27. See commentary “On the propriety of collaborations between academicians and the pharmaceutical industry: an alternate viewpoint” on page 29. See commentary “Staying true to mission” on page 31. See commentary “Conflicting views on conflicts of interest in medicine” on page 32. See commentary “Conflicts of interest and the credibility of psychiatric research” on page 33. See commentary “A counter proposal to manage financial conflicts of interest in academic psychiatry” on page 34. See commentary “What is the impact of financial conflicts of interest on the development of psychiatry?” on page 36.

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