Masala

摘要

Industry-physician interaction is receiving increasing attention and the code of conduct for industry has also become more stringent. The Institute of Medicine has called for measures to regulate conflicts of interest among physicians. Recent recommendations stated that medical institutions should create conflict-of-interest policies that mandate 'disclosure and management' of personal and institutional financial ties to industry; investigators should not conduct human trials if they have financial interests in the results; academic medical centres and teaching hospitals should ban faculty from accepting gifts or making presentations managed by the industry; physicians should provide free drug samples only to patients without the means to pay for them; and continuing medical education programmes should be funded without industry support (www. iom. edu/conflictofinterest April 2009).