title: Relations between academic departments of psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D004345:Drug Industry; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research