Sharma Vishal, Aggarwal Sourabh, Singh Harkirat, Garg Shashank, Sharma Alka, Sharma Rashmi
University College of Medical Sciences, India.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2010 Oct-Dec;7(4):223-5. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2010.082.
Pharmaceutical companies use a variety of strategies, including gifts, to influence physicians. In December 2009, the Medical Council of India amended the Code of Medical Ethics to ban medical professionals from accepting gifts from pharmaceutical companies. In view of this ban, it is important to find out the magnitude and contours of the problem amongst Indian medical professionals. We aimed to study, through an e-mail based survey, the attitudes and practices of young resident doctors and interns from two medical colleges of New Delhi regarding acceptance of gifts from the pharmaceutical industry. We e-mailed the questionnaire to 150 fresh graduates. We found that the majority of graduates agreed with existing guidelines: they accepted low cost gifts but considered expensive gifts unrelated to patient welfare unethical. Despite the low response rate, this study is important because data from India on attitudes and practices of medical professionals regarding gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are virtually non-existent.
制药公司采用包括送礼在内的各种策略来影响医生。2009年12月，印度医学委员会修订了《医学伦理准则》，禁止医学专业人员接受制药公司的礼物。鉴于这一禁令，了解印度医学专业人员中该问题的严重程度和具体情况很重要。我们旨在通过一项基于电子邮件的调查，研究新德里两所医学院年轻住院医生和实习生对于接受制药行业礼物的态度和行为。我们将问卷通过电子邮件发送给150名应届毕业生。我们发现，大多数毕业生认同现行准则：他们接受低成本礼物，但认为与患者福利无关的昂贵礼物是不道德的。尽管回复率较低，但这项研究很重要，因为关于印度医学专业人员对于制药行业礼物的态度和行为的数据几乎不存在。
