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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2014

Ensuring accountability through health professional regulatory bodies: the case of conflict of interest.

Debra Zelisko, Andrea Baumann, Brenda Gamble, Audrey Laporte, Raisa B Deber

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Debra ZeliskoVice President Operations, Lifestyle Hearing Corporation, Guelph, ON.
Andrea BaumannAssociate Vice President, International Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Director, Nursing Health Services Research Unit, McMaster University Hamilton, ON.
Brenda GambleAssociate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON.
Audrey LaporteAssociate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Raisa B DeberProfessor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research PHE-101967
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How do self-regulated health professions' regulatory bodies address financial conflict of interest (coi) and ensure accountability to the public? using document analysis, we examined how four ontario regulatory colleges (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, audiologists/speech-language pathologists) defined coi and the education, guidance and enforcement they provided for coi-related issues. These colleges are upholding the mandates to define, identify and address financial coi by providing regulations or standards and guidelines to their membership; they differed in the amount of educational materials provided to their registrants and in the possible coi scenarios they presented. Although there were few disciplinary hearings pertaining to financial coi, findings for the hearings that did occur were documented and posted on the college public registers (the listing of all registered college members along with all relevant practice information), informing the public of any limitations or restrictions placed on a member as a result of the hearing.

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Conflict of InterestSocial ResponsibilityHealth OccupationsHumansOntarioOrganizational PolicyProfessional MisconductSocieties

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PMID25305394
PMCPMC4255581

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