Information from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of physicians' prescribing: a systematic review

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Spurling, Geoffrey K., Mansfield, Peter R., Montgomery, Brett D., Lexchin, Joel, Doust, Jenny, Othman, Noordin, Vitry, Agnes I.
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Public Library of Science 2010
• الموضوعات: RS Pharmacy and materia medica
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://irep.iium.edu.my/346/1/journal.pmed.1000352.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/346/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000352

Background Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. The industry claims that promotion provides scientific and educational information to physicians. While some evidence indicates that promotion may adversely influence prescribing, physi...