THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH CASE PROFESSIONALS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL-INDUSTRY

Although UCLA had. established policies and procedures for visiting ph armaceutical representatives, changes in both the pharmaceutical busin ess environment and in UCLA's physical environment mandated an update. To deal with the changes, a multidisciplinary team comprised of vario us departmental staff members met to develop a new vendor representati ve visitation policy that included the practice of drug sample distrib ution. More stringent registration requirements and shared responsibil ity for policy enforcement are the key elements of the new policy.