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Should attending physicians who are paid by a pharmaceutical company to enroll patients into a research study be the ones to select their own patients and educate them as part of the patient's informed consent to participate?
Wouldn't a financial relationship with the pharmaceutical company represent a conflict of interest and be unprofessional in providing advice and education to his or her patient?
Would the magnitude of the payment be a factor in the answer to the above questions? Should physicians reject payment and suggest enrolling to the appropriate patient simply out of desire to hopefully benefit the patient or others who are ill through the patient's participation in the study? Those are my questions. What are the answers? ..Maurice.
Would the magnitude of the payment be a factor in the answer to the above questions? Should physicians reject payment and suggest enrolling to the appropriate patient simply out of desire to hopefully benefit the patient or others who are ill through the patient's participation in the study? Those are my questions. What are the answers? ..Maurice.
asked Mar 01, 2010 at 04:58PM in Other
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answered Mar 03, 2010 at 06:47AMDicey issue for sure. At our institution we do allow for the enrolling of a physician's own patients in their research protocol after including language which describes in detail that the patient does not have to enroll. For some situations (ie. studying very rare conditions) it is unavoidable.
Personally, I do not think it is the cleanest way to avoid misperceptions. I think it is better if a physician researcer has a patient they think might be appropriate for their study to ask some one else involved in the study to explain and obtain consent.-
I completely agree with you. It sounds really dicey.Beth L. Gainer commented Mar 09, 2010 at 12:52PM
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answered Mar 03, 2010 at 07:06AMAt our research sites, there are always at least two physicians. The attending physician who is aware of the research project, may make the referral, however, at that point he backs away and the other physician is involved in the project, including informed consent. The referring physician can not financially receive a "finders fee" or any financial incentive for the referral.
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