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<br />'~` Conflict of Interest Policy
<br />PPB-MC-50
<br />Effective Date: 7/2010
<br />WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH
<br />POLICY AND PROCEDURE BULLETIN
<br />Subject: Conflict of Interest with Industry
<br />Purpose of Policy
<br />The purpose of this policy is to establish rules for interactions with Industry and Industry representatives throughout Wake
<br />> InfiNet Home Forest University Baptist Medical Center and its component institutions, Wake Forest University Health Sciences and North
<br />> Wake Forest Baptist Extranet Carolina Baptist Hospital and their controlled affiliates. These institutions carry out a joint mission of patient care, education,
<br />> WFBMC Phone Directory research and community service, and are committed to ensuring that faculty, employees, students, trainees and volunteers
<br />strive for the highest degree of professional and ethical standards and integrity in carrying out this mission. Often, Wake
<br />Forest University Baptist Medical Center engages in effective and principled interactions and relationships with
<br />representatives of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and hospital and research equipment supply companies
<br />in order to advance patient care, education, research, and community service. While many of these interactions and
<br />relationships may benefit the Medical Center, its individual members, patients and the community, they also have the
<br />potential to create actual and perceived conflicts of interest, as well as other adverse consequences. In addition, the federal
<br />Anti-Kickback laws prohibit knowingly receiving anything of value from vendors that induces a clinician to use or purchase
<br />products or services which are reimbursed by Government programs such as Medicare or Medicaid. Therefore, Wake
<br />Forest University Baptist Medical Genter has adopted the following policy to govern interactions and relationships with
<br />Industry,
<br />Statement and Scope of Policy
<br />It is the policy of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, including Wake Forest University Health Sciences and
<br />North Carolina Baptist Hospital, that interactions with Industry be free from improper influence by Industry, conducted so as
<br />to avoid or minimize actual or perceived conflicts of interest, and compliant with federal and state laws and regulations,
<br />including the Anti-Kickback law.
<br />This policy applies to all faculty, employees, students, trainees and volunteers of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical
<br />Center, Wake Forest University Health Sciences and North Carolina Baptist Hospital.
<br />For purposes of this policy, "Industry" is defined as all pharmaceutical manufacturers, and biotechnology, medical device,
<br />and hospital and research equipment supply Industry entities and their representatives, as well as any other vendor that
<br />provides goods or services for use in patient care, education or research.
<br />This policy also supplements existing WFUBMC, WFUHS and NCBH policies, including but not limited to' WFUHS
<br />Authorship Guidelines; WFUHS Policy on Conflicts of Interest and Disclosure; NCBH Policy on Conflicts of Interest; and
<br />WFUBMC Policies for Medical Service Representatives for Pharmaceutical Products and for Medical Service
<br />Representatives for Medical Devices and Products.
<br />In all cases where this policy is more restrictive than another WFUBMC, WFUHS or NCBH policy, this policy shall control,
<br />Procedures for the implementation and oversight of this policy shall be developed by the Conflict of Interest Oversight
<br />Committee with membership representing WFUBMC, WFUHS and NCBH.
<br />This policy incorporates the following types of interactions with Industry'
<br />I. Certified Gontinuing_Education (CGE) Activities and. Noncertfied Continuing Education (non-GCE) Acivties
<br />Ghost Writing.and Guest_Authorship
<br />II. News Releases and News Media Contact
<br />III. Committee Participation
<br />IV. Ind...ustry ~onso. red.Rese..a..rch
<br />V. Consulting and Speakers' Bureau Agreements
<br />VI. Payments for Attending Professional Meetings
<br />VII. Vendor Fairs
<br />http://infinet.wfubmc.edu/COI/COI_Policy.html 7/15/2011
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