Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4217

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Publication type: Journal Article

Randall T.
Kennedy hearings say no more free lunch--or much else--from drug firms.
JAMA 1991 Jan 23-30; 265:(4):440,

Abstract:

Hearings by the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee were told about a variety of promotional excesses by drug companies, including awarding physicians “frequent flyerâ€ points for prescribing drugs. More than $8000 per physician is spent on promotion annually. Both the American Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association have recently adopted ethical guidelines about physician acceptance of gifts.

Keywords:
*news story/United States/American Medical Association/AMA/Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (US)/PMA/U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee/gift giving/regulation of promotion/bioethics/doctors/promotion costs and volume/reimbursement to doctors/relationship between medical profession and industry/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: PAYMENT FOR MEALS, ACCOMODATION, TRAVEL, ENTERTAINMENT/PROMOTION DISGUISED: CLINICAL TRIALS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION/VOLUME OF AND EXPENDITURE ON PROMOTION Advertising/legislation & jurisprudence Codes of Ethics Conflict of Interest/legislation & jurisprudence Drug Industry/legislation & jurisprudence* Ethics Federal Government Government Regulation Physicians* Professional Misconduct* Social Control, Formal* United States United States Food and Drug Administration