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Of these, 4.6% had an ethical code covering relationships with industry on their websites, while 45.6% had a statute that mentioned the issue of conflict of interest and 6.1% published the annual financial report. With regard to industry sponsorship, 64.9% received private sponsorship for their last conference, 29.0% had manufacturers\u2019 logos on their webpage, while 35.9% had industry-sponsored satellite symposia at their last conference. The presence of an ethical code on the societies\u2019 websites was associated with both an increased risk of industry sponsorship of the last conference (relative risk (RR) 1.22, 95% CIs 1.01 to 1.48 after adjustment) and of conferences and\/or satellite symposia (RR 1.22, 95% CIs 1.02 to 1.48 after adjustment) but not with the presence of manufacturers\u2019 logos on the websites (RR 1.79, 95% CIs 0.66 to 4.82 after adjustment). No association was observed with the other indicators of governance and transparency.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This survey shows that industry sponsorship of Italian medical societies\u2019 conferences is common, while the presence of a structured regulatory system is not. Disclosure of the amount of industry funding to medical societies is scarce. The level of transparency therefore needs to be improved and the whole relationship between medical societies and industry should be further disciplined in order to avoid any potential for conflict of interest.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2016-011124","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,2]],"date-time":"2016-06-02T00:37:34Z","timestamp":1464827854000},"page":"e011124","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Conflict of interest between professional medical societies and industry: a cross-sectional study of Italian medical societies\u2019 websites"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Alice","family":"Fabbri","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Research in Medical Pharmacology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy"},{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Centre for International Health, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy"}]},{"given":"Giorgia","family":"Gregoraci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, Institute of Hygiene and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Udine, Udine, Italy"}]},{"given":"Dario","family":"Tedesco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy"},{"name":"Italian Medical Residents Committee of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (S It I), Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Filippo","family":"Ferretti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Italian Medical Residents Committee of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (S It I), Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Gilardi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Italian Medical Residents Committee of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (S It I), Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Diego","family":"Iemmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Italian Medical Residents Committee of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (S It I), Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy"}]},{"given":"Cosima","family":"Lisi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Angelo","family":"Lorusso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Centre for International Health, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy"}]},{"given":"Francesca","family":"Natali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Centre for International Health, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy"}]},{"given":"Edit","family":"Shahi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Italian Medical Residents Committee of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (S It I), Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy"}]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Rinaldi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Italian Medical Residents Committee of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (S It I), Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121508561047000_6.6.e011124.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2009.407"},{"key":"2025121508561047000_6.6.e011124.2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1713","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1526-4637.2011.01282.x","article-title":"The medical\u2013industrial complex, professional medical associations, and continuing medical Education","volume":"12","author":"Schofferman","year":"2011","journal-title":"Pain Med"},{"key":"2025121508561047000_6.6.e011124.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/ACM.0b013e3181c46429"},{"key":"2025121508561047000_6.6.e011124.4","unstructured":"IOM (Institute of Medicine). 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