We interact honestly with health care providers
Health care providers are at the front lines of disease management.
We collaborate to ensure our products are appropriately prescribed and distributed to the patients who need them. Our dedication to clear communications with health care providers serves the best interests of patients and supports medical advancements.
We take care to ensure product information is accurate, comprehensive, relevant and up to date. We are fair and open in our dealings with health care providers and customers. We do not offer or give gifts or other items or services of value as a means to earn favor for our products or to sway medical judgment. We rely on product quality and health care outcomes to influence purchasing and prescribing practices. This reinforces the positive reputation we have earned worldwide.
This is our way
Our commitment to transparency gives us another way to inspire public trust in our company. We track and submit accurate reports of anything of value given to health care providers and teaching hospitals. Depending on your location, you may need to track payments, expenses and fees covering such things as …
- Meals
- Travel
- Educational material
- Consulting and speaking engagements
- Grants and charitable donations
- Research
Making a difference
I interact regularly with a research hospital and want to send a holiday gift basket to the hospital, filling it with candy for distribution to its employees. After consulting AbbVie’s Office of Ethics and Compliance I am told that while it is a kind offer, I should not do it because it might appear that AbbVie is trying to influence doctors at the hospital to do business with AbbVie.
