Author/Authors :
Salari, Pooneh tehran university of medical sciences tums - Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, تهران, ايران , Namazi, Hamidreza tehran university of medical sciences tums - Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, تهران, ايران , Abdollahi, Mohammad tehran university of medical sciences tums - Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center - Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, تهران, ايران , Khansari, Fatemeh tehran university of medical sciences tums - Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, تهران, ايران , Nikfar, Shekoufeh tehran university of medical sciences tums - Faculty of Pharmacy, Food and Drug Laboratory Research Center, Food and Drug Organization - Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration, تهران, ايران , Larijani, Bagher tehran university of medical sciences tums - Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, تهران, ايران , Araminia, Behin tehran university of medical sciences tums - Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, تهران, ايران
Abstract :
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.
