Conflict of interest between professional medical societies and industry: a cross-sectional study of Italian medical societies' websites.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe how Italian medical societies interact with pharmaceutical and medical device industries through an analysis of the information available on their websites.

Design

Cross sectional study.

Setting

Italy.

Participants

154 medical societies registered with the Italian Federation of Medical-Scientific Societies.

Main outcome measures

Indicators of industry sponsorship (presence of industry sponsorship in the programme of the last medical societies' annual conference; presence of manufacturers' logos on the homepage; presence of industry sponsorship of satellite symposia during the last annual conference).

Results

131 Italian medical societies were considered. Of these, 4.6% had an ethical code covering relationships with industry

SUBMITTER: Fabbri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4893870 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature