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Relations between academic departments of psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.6.827

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.

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