pharmaphorum January 3, 2025
Researchers in Europe have called for action to safeguard the independence of patient organisations, after finding potential for a “hidden conflict of interest” in a study.
The team from the University of Bath in the UK, Poland’s Kozminski Academy, and Lund University in Sweden have concluded that patient advocacy groups and charities are at risk of aligning their interests with their corporate funders – even when this does not benefit their members.
The research focused on Poland, the birth country of lead investigator Piotr Ozieranski of Bath’s Department of Social and Policy Sciences, and compared funding models in the central European country to those seen in Western Europe and North America.
It found that there had been a steady increase...
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