title: [Self-help groups conflicts of interest through sponsoring by the pharmaceutical industry].
abstract: Some patient and self-help groups accept financial support from the pharmaceutical industry and medical device manufacturers. For the industry, this constitutes an increasingly important product marketing component. The acceptance of material or other support triggers psychological mechanisms which endanger objective judgement without the persons involved realizing it. Thus, patient groups may evaluate drugs or devices in a positively distorted way.
authors.affiliation: Hochschule Regensburg, Fakultät Sozialwissenschaften, Regensburg, BRD. david.klemperer@soz.fh-regensburg.de
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authors.lastname: Klemperer
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000941:ethics*; D005858:Germany; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D012648:Self Care / Q000941:ethics*; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000941:ethics*