Conflicts of Interest on Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees at Academic Medical Centers

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.

Health industry practices that create conflicts of interest: a policy proposal for academic medical centers.

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...

A new survey to evaluate conflict of interest policies at academic medical centers

BACKGROUND A majority of academic medical centers (AMCs) have now adopted conflict of interest policies (COI) to address relationships with pharmaceutical and device industries that can increase the risk of bias in patient care, education and research. However, AMCs may have little information on the impact of their policies. This paper provides a new method, which is a free, publicly-available...

Revisiting financial conflicts of interest in FDA advisory committees.

CONTEXT The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety and Innovation Act has recently relaxed conflict-of-interest rules for FDA advisory committee members, but concerns remain about the influence of members' financial relationships on the FDA's drug approval process. Using a large newly available data set, this study carefully examined the relationship between the financial interests of FDA Ce...

Conflicts of interest in medical practice.

It has become more and more apparent that some aspects of current medical practice can no longer be kept solely within the private preserve of the profession. Medical error is now treated in an open fashion because it is clear that frank debate over its incidence, causes and mechanisms are crucial to effective prevention. This has always been one of our worst kept secrets. Equally conflicts of ...