Sponsorship hospitality

The greater part of the book was written while L. S. was Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He sincerely thanks the Chemistry Department for their kind hospitality. W. L. J was a recipient of a Graduate Research Assistantship under the sponsorship of the Department of Chemistry at Harvard and the National Institutes of Health. 

Based on their corporate experience in supporting their own research and development projects as well as a number of government-sponsored activities, the development of scientific software at BBN grew out of a long history of support of a variety of scientific applications. For example, in the 1960 s, BBN developed a hospital information system for Massachusetts General Hospital which used an early minicomputer, the PDP-1, to support clinical research activities. Under the sponsorship of the National Institutes of Health, they developed a system called PROPHET (1) which provides a... 

One of the first considerations in respect of sponsorship of healthcare professionals attending international congresses, in terms of travel, accommodation or congress registration fees, is whether the authorities in the health professional s country require notification of this sponsorship. This is true in France, for example, where the national medical board, Consiel national de l Ordre des Medecins (CNOM), and the national board of pharmacists, Consiel national de l Ordre des Pharmacists (CNOP), require 30 days advance notification of hospitality or sponsorship. Details of this can be found in Section 8.3, p. 131. 

Equipment or durable items cannot be provided to individual physicians or other healthcare professionals. Equipment or durable items (e.g., TV sets, printers, PCs, furniture) are appropriate forms of sponsorship for hospitals or institutions when the equipment or item is used as a means of diagnosis/evaluation, or improves medical quality or patient care. In the case of equipment or durable items, such equipment must remain within property/site of the hospital or institution at all times, and must not be used for personal use at any time. 

All requests for sponsorship must be unsolicited, and based on a written request by hospital or institution. Each member should establish internal procedures to review sponsorship requests for appropriateness. 

Sponsorship of independent scientific and research programmes of hospital institutions, as well as prizes and scholarships to healthcare professionals. 

Hospitality provided by companies either directly or by sponsorship or assistance to the meeting organisers of educational meetings must be secondary to the educational purpose. 

Thanks are given to the preparatory committee for its scientific advice, to the Bundesministerium fiir Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit (Ministry of Youth, Family and Health Affairs) for the financial support, to the Senate of Berlin for the great hospitality and to the World Health Organization (WHO) for its very helpful engagement in this field as expressed by its co-sponsorship. Thanks are also given to all the speakers for their well-founded contributions and to the chairmen for their attendance and summaries of their sections. 

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