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Managing relationships with industry : a physician's compliance manual /

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Now more than ever, doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies. With reputations at stake and the risk of civil and criminal liability, it is incumbent upon doctors to protect themselves. Mana...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Schachter, Steven C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press/Elsevier, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Medical ethics > United States.
Medical instruments and apparatus industry > United States.
Advertising > Medicine > United States.
Medical laws and legislation > United States.
Physicians > ethics > United States.
Physicians > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Drug Industry > ethics > United States.
Drug Industry > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Ethics, Institutional > United States.
Health Care Sector > ethics > United States.
Health Care Sector > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Overview of legal sources
  • Summary of recent prosecutions and investigations
  • Applications of law and professional and trade association standards to physician relationships with industry
  • Legal and ethical aspects of specific physician-industry financial relationships
  • Approaching and adopting effective compliance plans.