Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation

Pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. Other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their...

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Main Authors:	Salari, Pooneh, Namazi, Hamidreza, Abdollahi, Mohammad, Khansari, Fatemeh, Nikfar, Shekoufeh, Larijani, Bagher, Araminia, Behin
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3810583/

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spelling	pubmed-38105832013-10-30 Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation Salari, Pooneh Namazi, Hamidreza Abdollahi, Mohammad Khansari, Fatemeh Nikfar, Shekoufeh Larijani, Bagher Araminia, Behin Review Article Pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. Other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. Therefore, pharmacy practice is vulnerable to ethical challenges and needs special code of conducts. On feeling the need, based on a shared project between experts of the ethics from relevant research centers, all the needs were fully recognized and then specified code of conduct for each was written. The code of conduct was subject to comments of all experts involved in the pharmaceutical sector and thus criticized in several meetings. The prepared code of conduct is comprised of professional code of ethics for pharmacists, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical manufacturers, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical importers, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical distributors, and ethics guideline for policy makers. The document was compiled based on the principles of bioethics and professionalism. The compiling the code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system is the first step in implementing ethics in pharmacy practice and further attempts into teaching the professionalism and the ethical code as the necessary and complementary effort are highly recommended. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3810583/ /pubmed/24174954 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Research in Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Salari, Pooneh Namazi, Hamidreza Abdollahi, Mohammad Khansari, Fatemeh Nikfar, Shekoufeh Larijani, Bagher Araminia, Behin
spellingShingle	Salari, Pooneh Namazi, Hamidreza Abdollahi, Mohammad Khansari, Fatemeh Nikfar, Shekoufeh Larijani, Bagher Araminia, Behin Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation
author_facet	Salari, Pooneh Namazi, Hamidreza Abdollahi, Mohammad Khansari, Fatemeh Nikfar, Shekoufeh Larijani, Bagher Araminia, Behin
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title	Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation
title_short	Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation
title_full	Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation
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title_full_unstemmed	Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation
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description	Pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. Other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. Therefore, pharmacy practice is vulnerable to ethical challenges and needs special code of conducts. On feeling the need, based on a shared project between experts of the ethics from relevant research centers, all the needs were fully recognized and then specified code of conduct for each was written. The code of conduct was subject to comments of all experts involved in the pharmaceutical sector and thus criticized in several meetings. The prepared code of conduct is comprised of professional code of ethics for pharmacists, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical manufacturers, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical importers, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical distributors, and ethics guideline for policy makers. The document was compiled based on the principles of bioethics and professionalism. The compiling the code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system is the first step in implementing ethics in pharmacy practice and further attempts into teaching the professionalism and the ethical code as the necessary and complementary effort are highly recommended.
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