Study Affirms Pharma's Influence on Physicians

Autor: John Dudley Miller
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 99:1148-1150
ISSN: 1460-2105
0027-8874
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djm097
Popis: Physicians are under more intense financial pressure than ever to prescribe pharmaceutical manufacturers’ expensive new drugs even when cheaper, more established drugs may be at least as effective. Coupled with psychological or social pressure that may distort a doctor’s judgment, the influence of free gifts and subtle economic incentives may have financial costs, according to several recent studies on the interactions be tween doctors and drug company representatives.
Databáze: OpenAIRE