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AMA calls for investigations of retail clinics
Quality Improvement Monitor, July 6, 2007
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on state and federal agencies to launch investigations into retail clinics, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The association's policymakers said lack of regulation at retail clinics might pose health risks and potential conflicts of interest between the clinics' nurse practitioners who order prescriptions and the pharmacies that fill them, the paper reported.
Retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Walgreen Co., and CVS/Caremark Corp. plan to launch thousands of retail clinics to U.S. consumers in the coming years. But retail clinic operators told the Tribune that the AMA's move is a protectionist measure to put the interests of physicians ahead of patients.
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