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Presentation at a Grand Round, King Abdullah Medical City held at Makkah AlMukarramah, Saudi Arabia on 11 April 2017 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK). MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Chairman of the Ethics Committee King Fahad Medical City.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
• Financial or non-financial benefit that affects professional judgment and practice
• Do small gifts affect the doctor’s judgment and prescription habits?
• Are physicians influenced to add medicine to the hospital formulary?
• Do gifts affect physician reporting of research results?
WHAT PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES OFFER PHYSICIANS:
• Free drug samples
• Expenses for attending conferences
• Payments as consultants
• Payments for giving lectures
• Payments for research
• Drug company representatives give drug information? Accurate? Biased?
SCENARIO - 1:
• A physician involved in a multi-center clinical trial and receiving substantial financial compensation was told by the pharmaceutical company to terminate the study and he never asked for the reason. What do you think could be the underlying reason?
SCENARIO - 2:
• A researcher was offered a fully paid conference package with his family when he published a paper favorable to the drug being introduced by the pharmaceutical company. The next year he published an unfavorable report about another drug of the company. No conference package was offered and his wife was asking him why they did not go overseas this year. Explain.