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• Title:
  The importance of “disclosure” in relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical companies
• Creator:
  Makowska, Marta;
  Jasiński, Łukasz
• Contributor:
  Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology;
  Maria Curie Skłodowska University of Lublin, Faculty of Economics;
  marta_makowska@sggw.pl;
  lukasz.jasinski@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl
• Description:
  The article raises issues of transparency in relationships between doctors and drug manufacturers. It indicates how important it is as a way for physicians and the pharmaceutical industry to regain public trust. The manuscript will define the concept of disclosure. It will discuss in detail The Physician Payment Sunshine Act from the U.S., which imposes a legal obligation on pharmaceutical companies to disclose their relationships with doctors and university hospitals. The article will also show the diverse regulation of disclosure in different countries of the European Union. The situation in Poland will be also described. In the summary, there will be a discussion about the importance of disclosure for patients and the advantages and disadvantages of such regulations for physicians and drug manufacturers.;
  Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the "Annales. Ethics in Economic Life" financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.04.03;
  2018
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Annales. Ethics in Economic Life; 5;
  21
• Subject:
  conflict of interest;
  disclosure;
  ethical standard;
  pharmaceutical industry;
  I18
• Identifier:
  1899-2226;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/27306 ;
  2353-4869;
  10.18778/1899-2226.21.5.07
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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