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      Condiciones de trabajo en consultorios adyacentes a farmacias privadas en Ciudad de México: perspectiva del personal médico Translated title: Working conditions in outpatient clinics adjacent to private pharmacies in Mexico City: perspective of physicians

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          Resumen Objetivo: Analizar, desde la perspectiva del personal médico, las condiciones laborales de los consultorios adyacentes a farmacias privadas (CAF), así como sus elementos organizativos. Método: Estudio cualitativo exploratorio consistente en entrevistas semiestructuradas a 32 médicos/as de los CAF en Ciudad de México. Se utilizó la técnica de análisis de contenido dirigido basado en códigos previamente construidos y emergentes, relacionados con la experiencia vivida de los sujetos en su campo laboral. Resultados: El personal médico percibió que trabajar en los CAF no cumple con sus expectativas profesionales por la baja remuneración, la informalidad en la contratación y la ausencia de garantías laborales establecidas en la ley. Esto les impide disfrutar de los beneficios asociados con el empleo formal y sustenta el deseo de laborar en los CAF solo de manera temporal. Consideraron que los incentivos económicos por número de consultas, procedimientos y ventas alcanzadas por la farmacia les permiten aumentar su ingreso sin influir en su conducta prescriptiva. Señalaron que los sistemas de supervisión y presión en los CAF buscan afectar su autonomía para activar la venta de medicamentos en la farmacia. Conclusiones: El personal médico que labora en CAF enfrenta una difícil situación laboral. Los elementos gerenciales usados para inducir la prescripción y activar las ventas de las farmacias conforman un entorno laboral que genera retos en materia de regulación, y subraya la necesidad de monitorear la calidad de los servicios brindados en estos consultorios y los posibles riesgos a los usuarios.

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          Abstract Objective: To analyse the working conditions of physicians in outpatient clinics adjacent to pharmacies (CAFs) and their organizational elements from their own perspective. Methods: We carried out an exploratory qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 CAF physicians in Mexico City. A directed content analysis technique was used based on previously built and emerging codes which were related to the experience of the subjects in their work. Results: Respondents perceive that work in CAFs does not meet professional expectations due to low pay, informality in the recruitment process and the absence of minimum labour guarantees. This prevents them from enjoying the benefits associated with formal employment, and sustains their desire to work in CAF only temporarily. They believe that economic incentives related to number of consultations, procedures and sales attained by the pharmacy allow them to increase their income without influencing their prescriptive behaviour. They express that the monitoring systems and pressure exerted on CAFs seek to affect their autonomy, pushing them to enhance the sales of medicines in the pharmacy. Conclusions: Physicians working in CAFs face a difficult employment situation. The managerial elements used to induce prescription and enhance pharmacy sales create a work environment that generates challenges for regulation and underlines the need to monitor the services provided at these clinics and the possible risk for users.

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              Controversy exists over the fact that physicians have regular contact with the pharmaceutical industry and its sales representatives, who spend a large sum of money each year promoting to them by way of gifts, free meals, travel subsidies, sponsored teachings, and symposia. To identify the extent of and attitudes toward the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry and its representatives and its impact on the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of physicians. A MEDLINE search was conducted for English-language articles published from 1994 to present, with review of reference lists from retrieved articles; in addition, an Internet database was searched and 5 key informants were interviewed. A total of 538 studies that provided data on any of the study questions were targeted for retrieval, 29 of which were included in the analysis. Data were extracted by 1 author. Articles using an analytic design were considered to be of higher methodological quality. Physician interactions with pharmaceutical representatives were generally endorsed, began in medical school, and continued at a rate of about 4 times per month. Meetings with pharmaceutical representatives were associated with requests by physicians for adding the drugs to the hospital formulary and changes in prescribing practice. Drug company-sponsored continuing medical education (CME) preferentially highlighted the sponsor's drug(s) compared with other CME programs. Attending sponsored CME events and accepting funding for travel or lodging for educational symposia were associated with increased prescription rates of the sponsor's medication. Attending presentations given by pharmaceutical representative speakers was also associated with nonrational prescribing. The present extent of physician-industry interactions appears to affect prescribing and professional behavior and should be further addressed at the level of policy and education.
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                Journal
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                Gaceta Sanitaria
                Gac Sanit
                Ediciones Doyma, S.L. (Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain )
                0213-9111
                December 2017
                : 31
                : 6
                : 459-465
                Affiliations
                [3] Bucaramanga Santander orgnameUniversidad Industrial de Santander orgdiv1Escuela de Medicina orgdiv2Departamento de Salud Pública Colombia
                [1] Cuernavaca Morelos orgnameInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública orgdiv1Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud Mexico
                [4] Cuernavaca Morelos orgnameUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos México
                [2] Ciudad de México orgnameHospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez México
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                S0213-91112017000600459
                10.1016/j.gaceta.2016.10.016
                28473208
                30fdfb1f-ee79-4b4f-bfdf-63fbf9af7336

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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                : 17 June 2016
                : 24 October 2016
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                Mexico,Farmacias,Consultorios médicos,Conflicto de intereses,Employment,Conflict of interest,Empleo,Pharmacies,Physicians’ offices,Prescripciones de medicamentos,Drug prescriptions,México

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