Medicines Australia Code of Conduct

A better Code of Conduct.

I November 2004, Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) made substantial changes to the industry’s Code of Conduct. Although these changes might not have pleased both the medical and pharmaceutical communities, they were necessary. The original Code of Conduct was first introduced in 1988 and reflected the approach to and expectations of relationships between industry and the m...

The significance of Good Medical Practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia.

Assessing Personalized Medicines in Australia

BACKGROUND Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, the development of biomarker targeted therapy and clinical adoption of "personalized medicine" has accelerated. Models for insurance subsidy of biomarker/test/drug packages ("codependent technologies" or technologies that work better together) are not well developed. Our aim was to create a framework to assess the safety, effectiveness, ...

Toward an effective code of conduct.

Some facilities have had a code of conduct for years, and managers say it works well. At others, nurses still are too intimidated to remind physicians to wash their hands. In a lively discussion at the Managing Today’s OR Suite conference in October 2008 in Washington, DC, it was clear many organizations still have a ways to go in dealing with bad behavior. The discussion was timely. New Joint ...

Ethics And The Accountants’ Code Of Conduct

Although the A/CPA has established the Professional Code of Conduct to deal with the behavior of CPAs, research has also shown that an individual's behavior is af­ fected by his or her personal values. While there has been considerable research of the ethical behavior of business professionals and business students, there has been limited research of the personal values of public accountants. T...