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Professional medical organizations and commercial conflicts of interest: ethical issues.
Article in Annals of family medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it?Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2020Article
- [Conflicts of interest in the medical profession].Atencion primaria · 2019Article
- Proliferation of gynaecological scientific societies and their financial transparency: an Italian survey.BMJ open · 2016Article
- The Relationship Between Industry and Pain Societies, Part 1: Demystification and Legitimization of Continuing Medical Education.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2015Article
- Effects of the expansion of doctors' offices adjacent to private pharmacies in Mexico: secondary data analysis of a national survey.BMJ open · 2014Article
- Ethics, support for care, prevention, and what's important.Annals of family medicineArticle
- Identifying and addressing potential conflict of interest: a professional medical organization's code of ethics.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has recently been criticized for accepting a large corporate donation from Coca-Cola to fund patient education on obesity prevention. Conflicts of interest, whether individual or organizational, occur when one enters into arrangements that reasonably tempt one to put aside one's primary obligations in favor of secondary interests, such as financial self-interest. Accepting funds from commercial sources that seek to influence physician organizational behavior in a direction that could run counter to the public health represents one of those circumstances and so constitutes a conflict of interest. Most of the defenses offered by AAFP are rationalizations rather than ethical counterarguments. Medical organizations, as the public face of medicine and as formulator of codes of ethics for their physician members, have special obligations to adhere to high ethical standards.
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