CODES OF DEONTOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS – A
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
OFELIA CRIŞAN1*, SPERANŢA IACOB2
1Department of Pharmaceutical Legislation and Management, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Cluj-Napoca, 12 Ion Creangă Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2Romanian College of Pharmacists, Cluj Branch, 4 Aurel Vlaicu Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
*corresponding author: ofelia.crisan@umfcluj.ro
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Abstract:
Good physician-pharmacist collaboration can improve the quality of healthcare services. In practice, however, purely
mercantile associations and agreements between some of these professionals show that education and ethics have failed
somewhere along the way. The aim of the paper was to study the conception of the Romanian professional associations of
physicians and pharmacists regarding appropriate professional behaviour, by analysing their codes of deontology and
drawing up suggestions to optimize the professional ethics. The two codes of deontology in force were investigated using the
comparative method. Although both codes establish as ethical obligations the professional responsibility, protection of
professional independence and observance of the patient’s rights, they need to be complemented in the field of the
responsibility for the management of health resources, the explicit condemnation of allowing one’s judgment to be influenced
by personal profit, and respectively of observing the patients’ right to privacy, to their own time, to safety, to innovation, to
avoid unnecessary suffering and pain, to compensation. The professional ethics of physicians and pharmacists can be
optimized by harmonizing the codes of deontology with the relevant international documents, by providing ethical training to
their members and by the collaboration between their professional associations.

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