Support or sales? Medical device representatives in Australian hospitals

支持还是销售？

• 批准号: DP200100883
• 负责人: Dr Amanda Johnson
• 金额: $ 21.83万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-03-25 至 2025-03-23
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200100883
• 关键词: Support; sales; Medical; device; representatives

Medical device representatives provide crucial support to clinicians using complex medical equipment. However, their obligation to maximise sales conflicts with their support role. Increasing uptake of devices potentially impacts patient safety and healthcare costs, making it important to understand the involvement and influence of device representatives. The proposed research will investigate the ethical and legal impacts of device representatives in Australian hospitals, leading to new knowledge and innovative ethical and legal analyses of their activities. Benefits include a policy framework, new standards for managing device representatives’ interactions, and clarity about ethical and legal obligations of clinicians and institutions.

医疗器械代表为使用复杂医疗设备的临床医生提供重要支持。然而，他们的义务，以最大限度地提高销售冲突与他们的支持作用。越来越多的设备使用可能会影响患者安全和医疗保健成本，因此了解设备代表的参与和影响非常重要。拟议的研究将调查澳大利亚医院中器械代表的伦理和法律的影响，从而对其活动进行新的知识和创新的伦理和法律的分析。受益包括政策框架、管理器械代表互动的新标准，以及明确临床医生和机构的伦理和法律的义务。