Ethical Issues Pertaining to Conflicts of Interest Between Neurologists and the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries

Robbins, Nathaniel M.

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“…Preventing undue influence on physicians by the pharmaceutical companies' sales representatives is among the objectives of having those regulations in place [33]. The unethical behavior in the pharmaceutical industry is complex and multifaceted and thus society cannot entirely blame the sales representatives [34][35][36]. For example, there are instances where the physicians expect favors to prescribe certain drugs to the patients [28].…”

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General Theory of Marketing Ethics and Unethical Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry Field

Sawad¹,

Andrews²

2021

Int j pharm res allied sci

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Most theoretical efforts in marketing ethics focus on the normative approach, not the positive approach. Theories emphasize formulating guidelines and rules that can assist marketers in their efforts to behave ethically; however, the general theory of marketing ethics is descriptive; the theory tries to explain the decision-making process for the condition having ethical content. The discussion and valuation process involves normative ethical notions based on moral philosophy. On the other hand, the theory indicates that a personal moral norms concept based on an understanding of the society moral values levels enables an individual to make ethical decisions. The societal level of moral norms promotes social trust, based on deontological ethics. Resulting in social trust, promoting businesses' productivity and economic growth. However, the broad understanding of marketing ethics needs a holistic understanding of the existing knowledge. This will help to identify and explore ethical issues involved in the marketing industry. The primary purpose of this paper was to provide critical analysis and synthesis of the literature related to the general theory of marketing ethics and the strategies that sales managers in the pharmaceutical industry use to improve ethical marketing training to reduce unethical sales representative behavior. The review is organized so it includes six primary sections: a general theory of marketing ethics, causes and effects of unethical behavior, benefits of addressing unethical behavior, challenges faced in addressing unethical behavior, relationship building as the appropriate strategy for addressing unethical behavior, and training strategies to reduce unethical behavior.

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Section: Causes and Effects Of Unethical Behavior Among Pharmaceutical Sales Representativesmentioning

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General Theory of Marketing Ethics and Unethical Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry Field

Sawad¹,

Andrews²

2021

Int j pharm res allied sci

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“…Pharmaceutical companies interact with doctors to take gifts frequently and it is quite common practice. 7 Therefore, it is the most important moral issue in the medical profession so many researchers give their analytical views about it. 5,8 Even though the behavior of the doctor must not be influenced by the PRD (Physician-Drug Representative) proved by many researchers.…”

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Perception of Doctors towards Relationship with Pharmaceutical Industry

Ahmad¹,

Zaka²,

Rahman³

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JRMC

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Introduction: Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are the major components of the health care system. Their interdependency on such a large scale calls for a better relationship between two stakeholders of the health care system. Most of the time the relationship has a bad impact on the reputation of the prestigious medical profession as well as affects the health of the poor patient causing the malafied relationship. Materials and Methods: In order to see how the relationship works in the hospitals of Azad Kashmir, the study was conducted on the doctors of Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences, Muzaffarabad. A mixed type of study was conducted from January through June 2017. In this study, 100 doctors were selected for data collection by questionnaire method. While three different focus groups involving doctors from different specialties were made. Results: Out of 100 doctors, 36 doctors agreed that the doctors in AIMS are aware of such guidelines, 92 doctors agreed that there is a need for national guidelines to monitor the doctor and pharmaceutical company’s relationship, and 67 responded that doctors' prescription is influenced by the gifts given by pharmaceutical companies, 52 doctors agreed that pharmaceutical companies should be banned from giving gifts to physicians, 88 responded that the information provided by those representatives is only superficial and they don’t know the core information like side effects and mode of action of the drugs, 15 thought that yes it is ethical to accept the gifts from the pharmaceutical companies but only to the extent of samples of medicines. Out of 100, 89 doctors responded in favor of the incorporation of bioethics in the curriculum of medical education. During focus group discussion on the topic, three themes were finalized after detailed deliberation and these themes were, Doctor-Pharma Regulations, Accepting the gifts from Pharmaceutical Companies, and the influence of these Interactions on Physicians’ drug prescribing Behaviors and how the prescribing behaviors of doctors. Conclusion: Pharmaceutical companies have hijacked our whole health system to some extent and are polluted because of these Pharmaceutical companies’ representatives. There is a need to ascertain the fact that if this phenomenon is not controlled, in near future we will have to face very severe consequences and our patients will be at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies rather than the doctor.

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Conflicts of Interest Between Neurologists and Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries

Robbins

Smith

2022

Integrity of Scientific Research

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Ethical Issues Pertaining to Conflicts of Interest Between Neurologists and the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries

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General Theory of Marketing Ethics and Unethical Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry Field

General Theory of Marketing Ethics and Unethical Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry Field

Perception of Doctors towards Relationship with Pharmaceutical Industry

Conflicts of Interest Between Neurologists and Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries

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