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ForwardSHEA has been awarded Joint Accreditation to provide high-quality interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) for healthcare professionals.
Financial Disclosures
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA), in accordance with Joint Accreditation requirements and ACCME’s new Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an accredited educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies (those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients). The ACCME defines financial relationships as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company.
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA), in accordance with Joint Accreditation requirements and ACCME’s new Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an accredited educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies (those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients). The ACCME defines financial relationships as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company.
Faculty are required to either disclose financial relationships (name of ineligible company and nature of relationship) and include a statement that all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated or indicate that there are no relevant financial relationships. Disclosure to learners must not include ineligible companies’ corporate or product logos, trade names, or product group messages.
SHEA is responsible for ensuring that all CE-accredited activities are fair and balanced, and any clinical content presented supports safe, effective patient care. SHEA must also ensure all decisions related to the planning, faculty selection, delivery, and evaluation of accredited education are free from commercial bias and made without any influence or involvement from the owners and employees of an ineligible company.
Mitigation of Financial Conflicts of Interest
It is the policy of SHEA, in accordance with Joint Accreditation requirements and ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, that all faculty/speakers/moderators financial disclosures are mitigated prior to planning the educational content.
SHEA faculty/speakers/moderators are required to agree to the following methods of mitigating relevant conflicts of interest(s) prior to the beginning of planning the educational content.
- If participating in the development of educational content, to refrain from developing those components of the course that support or promote any financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
- To disclose any financial relationship(s) and include a statement that all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated in the course description, or that there are no conflicts of interest to disclose.
- To use generic names of products and/or services.
- If trade names of products and/or services are used, to use trade names from several companies, not just trade names from a single company.
- Attest that clinical recommendations are evidence-based and free of commercial bias (e.g., peer-reviewed literature, adhering to evidence-based practice guidelines).
