ENTIS Code of Conduct

Each TIS is autonomous and responsible for its own scientific and financial organization. However, ENTIS members are expected to work in line with the code of ethics of ENTIS. These specify that information given to clients about the safety and risks of medicines and other exposures, should conform with the highest standards of scientific and medical integrity and objectivity.

Statements should be free from any conflicts of interest.

Recommendations and guidelines made (under contract) by ab ENTIS member should not be influenced by specific interest of the requesting party (e.g., pharmaceutical industry).

Case reports collected by a TIS are the property of that TIS and must not be sold to pharmaceutical industry.

The TIS has the responsibility for independent evaluation of these data. To prevent misinterpretation and misuse of the case data, these should not be shared with institutions or persons not experienced in evaluating clinical teratology data.

In any collaboration with pharmaceutical, or other relevant industries, care must be taken to preserve the final rights relating to interpretation and publication of the results.

This applies to work undertaken by individual TISs as well as ENTIS collaborative studies.

The TIS should be aware of (inter)national regulations regarding privacy and confidentiality of data related to their users or clients.