Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:827-829
Copyright © 1979 by American Psychiatric Association
Relations between academic departments of psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies
M Jellinek and A Lazare
The financial pressures placed on academic departments of psychiatry make
the offers of assistance from pharmaceutical companies very attractive. The
authors provide a sequential three-step decision-making approach to help
the academic physician and the psychiatry department address the ethical
issues involved in any given interaction with a pharmaceutical company.
They also provide examples of the application of these guidelines.
