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Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it?
INTRODUCTION: Giving gifts is a common way to promote and encourage the use of products of trading companies and increase the patient referrals to diagnostic centers. The present study aimed to assess the practice of physicians of different (sub) specialties/educational levels engaged in breast canc...
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West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32592360 http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1653 |
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author | Ebrahimi, Amirpasha Zand, Sanaz Bagheri Amiri, Fahimeh Shahi, Fahad Jafarian, Ali Kaviani, Ahmad |
author_facet | Ebrahimi, Amirpasha Zand, Sanaz Bagheri Amiri, Fahimeh Shahi, Fahad Jafarian, Ali Kaviani, Ahmad |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Giving gifts is a common way to promote and encourage the use of products of trading companies and increase the patient referrals to diagnostic centers. The present study aimed to assess the practice of physicians of different (sub) specialties/educational levels engaged in breast cancer management in some conflict of interest (COI) situations in their relation with pharmaceutical companies and paraclinical centers. METHODS: A self-administered online questionnaire including questions on demographic and professional information as well as the attitude of physicians toward COI by answering the questions in three different practical scenarios was developed. Respondents were asked to answer each question by selecting one of the five options: strongly agree, agree, undecided/neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree in their own practices as well as the same questions asking the same subject for what they think of the other physicians. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to report qualitative and quantitative variables. RESULT: The response rate was 66.24%. In general, physicians considered their performance better than that of other physicians in the situations asked. More than 90% stated that they would participate in the sponsorship congress for introducing new drugs. One fifth of the physicians stated that they would accept the 30% financial proposition for the referral of every single patient to other clinics. More than half of the physicians stated that they had considered the risks resulted from the COI for referring patients to private radiobiological centers. CONCLUSION: This study indicated that physicians in the field of breast cancer were at the risk of COI. Even within the medical field, there is not sufficient trust in the proper functioning of doctors in dealing with COI situations. |
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spelling | pubmed-75688832020-10-30 Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? Ebrahimi, Amirpasha Zand, Sanaz Bagheri Amiri, Fahimeh Shahi, Fahad Jafarian, Ali Kaviani, Ahmad Asian Pac J Cancer Prev Research Article INTRODUCTION: Giving gifts is a common way to promote and encourage the use of products of trading companies and increase the patient referrals to diagnostic centers. The present study aimed to assess the practice of physicians of different (sub) specialties/educational levels engaged in breast cancer management in some conflict of interest (COI) situations in their relation with pharmaceutical companies and paraclinical centers. METHODS: A self-administered online questionnaire including questions on demographic and professional information as well as the attitude of physicians toward COI by answering the questions in three different practical scenarios was developed. Respondents were asked to answer each question by selecting one of the five options: strongly agree, agree, undecided/neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree in their own practices as well as the same questions asking the same subject for what they think of the other physicians. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to report qualitative and quantitative variables. RESULT: The response rate was 66.24%. In general, physicians considered their performance better than that of other physicians in the situations asked. More than 90% stated that they would participate in the sponsorship congress for introducing new drugs. One fifth of the physicians stated that they would accept the 30% financial proposition for the referral of every single patient to other clinics. More than half of the physicians stated that they had considered the risks resulted from the COI for referring patients to private radiobiological centers. CONCLUSION: This study indicated that physicians in the field of breast cancer were at the risk of COI. Even within the medical field, there is not sufficient trust in the proper functioning of doctors in dealing with COI situations. West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7568883/ /pubmed/32592360 http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1653 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ebrahimi, Amirpasha Zand, Sanaz Bagheri Amiri, Fahimeh Shahi, Fahad Jafarian, Ali Kaviani, Ahmad Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? |
title | Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? |
title_full | Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? |
title_fullStr | Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? |
title_full_unstemmed | Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? |
title_short | Conflict of Interest: Are Iranian Breast Cancer Specialists Prone to it? |
title_sort | conflict of interest: are iranian breast cancer specialists prone to it? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32592360 http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1653 |
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