Required Documentation Related to Disclosure of Financial Relationships with Ineligible Companies for Planners, Faculty, Authors, Medical Writers, Applicable CE Staff and Content Reviewers of CE Activities.

Information You Need to Know to Disclose Your Financial Relationships with Companies Related to Healthcare Products or Services
To participate in this educational activity, all individuals who have the ability to influence and/or control the content of this accredited CE activity must disclose all financial relationships with all companies — whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients — over the past 24 months. To confirm your participation in this CE activity, we ask that you complete this form within seven days of the receipt of this document.

What to Disclose:

  • There is no minimum financial threshold; you must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with companies as described above; only disclose your own financial relationships, not those of your spouse or life partner.
  • We ask you to disclose all financial relationships regardless of whether or not you view the relationships as relevant to the CE activity. The CE staff will determine if the information that you provide is relevant to the topics of the CE activity in which you will participate.
  • Since healthcare professionals serve as the trusted authorities when advising patients, they must protect the learning environment from industry influence to ensure they remain true to their ethical commitments.
  • If the CE staff determine that the financial relationships create a conflict of interest, the CE staff will determine the appropriate method of mitigation. Mitigation may involve but is not limited to an independent review of the content you develop (or if you are a planner, other methods will be utilized, including peer review of content by non-conflicted planners, etc.).
  • Many healthcare professionals have financial relationships with companies as defined above. By identifying and mitigating relevant financial relationships, we will work together to create a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from the influence from organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education.

If you have questions about these expectations, please contact Patricia Ferchland-Bingham at PFerchland-Bingham@kellencompany.com.


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