Industry relationships between physicians and professional medical associations: corrupt or essential?

Surg Endosc. 2010 Feb;24(2):251-3. doi: 10.1007/s00464-009-0878-4.

Abstract

Congress and others have called into question the propriety of relationships between professional medical associations (PMAs) and industry. These relationships are critical to the continued development of new and better devices and procedures for patients. Better guidelines are needed to help guide these relationships. Overrestrictive regulatory oversight risks overconstraint of these relationships and hindrance to medical progress.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Conflict of Interest*
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Drug Industry / ethics
  • Drug Industry / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Equipment and Supplies
  • Guidelines as Topic
  • Health Care Sector / ethics*
  • Health Care Sector / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Health Policy
  • Humans
  • Interprofessional Relations / ethics*
  • Organizational Policy
  • Physicians / economics
  • Physicians / ethics*
  • Policy Making
  • Professional Misconduct / ethics*
  • Professional Misconduct / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Research Support as Topic / ethics
  • Schools, Medical / economics
  • Schools, Medical / organization & administration
  • Societies, Medical / ethics*
  • Truth Disclosure
  • United States