Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15048

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Publication type: Journal Article

Klemperer D.
[Self-help groups conflicts of interest through sponsoring by the pharmaceutical industry].
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 2009 Jan; 52:(1):71-6
http://www.springerlink.com/content/92x3337327075725/

Abstract:

Some patient and self-help groups accept financial support from the pharmaceutical industry and medical device manufacturers. For the industry, this constitutes an increasingly important product marketing component. The acceptance of material or other support triggers psychological mechanisms which endanger objective judgement without the persons involved realizing it. Thus, patient groups may evaluate drugs or devices in a positively distorted way.