Relations between academic departments of psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies.
The financial pressures placed on academic departments of psychiatry make the offers of assistance from pharmaceutical companies very attractive. The authors provide a sequential three-step decision-making approach to help the academic physician and the psychiatry department address the ethical issues involved in any given interaction with a pharmaceutical company. They also provide examples of the application of these guidelines.
D004345:Drug Industry; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research