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  • Published on: 25 May 2017
    Re:Reply to: BMJ Open - Conflict of interest between professional medical societies and industry: a cross sectional study of Italian medical societies' websites
    • Alice Fabbri, PhD student
    • Other Contributors:
      • Giorgia Gregoraci, Dario Tedesco, Filippo Ferretti, Francesco Gilardi, Diego Iemmi, Cosima Lisi, Angelo Lorusso, Francesca Natali, Edit Shahi, Alessandro Rinaldi

    We would like to thank Franco Vimercati and Francesco Macri for pointing out an imprecision in our paper with regard to the Law Decree approved by the Ministry of Health in 2004 and revoked by the Constitutional Court in 2006. We have already asked BMJ Open to publish an errata corrige which will be online soon.

    Moreover, since the aim of our paper is to stimulate a reflection on the relationship between medica...

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    Conflict of Interest:
    None declared.
  • Published on: 25 May 2017
    Reply to: BMJ Open - Conflict of interest between professional medical societies and industry: a cross sectional study of Italian medical societies' websites

    Dear Editor, the above-mentioned paper, published on June 3d, 2016 by group.bmj.com, reports the results of a survey performed on 154 professional medical societies (PMS) belonging to FISM, the Italian Federation of Medical Societies. According to the study outcomes, industry sponsorship to PMS are very common both by Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Companies even if a precise and dedicated regulation is still missing...

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