E-DRUG: Educating Health Professionals about Drug and Device Promotion
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PLOS Medicine has published today a set of recommendations for improving
education for health professionals about pharmaceutical and device
promotion. The recommendations were produced by an iterative E-mail
discussion among representatives of four organizations: the American Medical Student Association, Healthy Skepticism Inc., No Free Lunch, and PharmAware.
Mansfield PR, Lexchin J, Wen LS, Grandori L, McCoy CP, et al. (2006)
Educating Health Professionals about Drug and Device Promotion: Advocates'
Recommendations. PLoS Med 3(11): e451
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%
2Fjournal.pmed.0030451
regards,
Peter
Dr Peter Mansfield
GP
Director, Healthy Skepticism Inc
www.healthyskepticism.org
Research Fellow, Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide
www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/peter.mansfield