La relación entre la medicina y los proveedores médicos
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2014
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Sociedad Médica de Santiago
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Abstract
In the last decades, many voices from academic medicine are questioning
the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry or other medical suppliers
and physicians. Conflict of interest has thus become a major issue of concern
in medicine and is becoming increasingly important for medical journals and
clinical work. Conflicts of interest may emerge in the daily practice of medicine,
in medical and pharmacological research, in the process of publication of medical
journals and in the dissemination of public and private medical information,
such as conferences, lectures, books, pamphlets, monographs, etc. The credibility
of physicians has been hampered in recent years by the proliferating connections
between them and medical suppliers. The public seems to be increasingly skeptical
of clinical medicine, since corporate actions placing profit over public health are
usual. Research centers and projects as well as medical journals are considered an
extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies. This undermines
the credibility of medical practice, research work and pharmaceutical information,
submitted to journals and later included in meta-analysis, influencing
therapeutic guidelines. In the meantime, while disclosure has become standard
practice in North America, it is not widely used in Latin-America and Europe.
If independent researchers are financed by agencies not related to the industry,
the problems caused by the increasing financial ties between the pharmaceutical
industry and researchers could be overcome, avoiding conflicts of interest. Better
disclosure policies and financial tie regulations are also urgently needed.
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Citation
Revista Médica de Chile,July 2014, vol.142,p.361-367
Keywords
Clinical trials as topic, Conflict of interest, Disclosure, Ethics, medical, Social responsibility