[e-drug] Industry influencing prescribing

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E-DRUG: Industry influencing prescribing
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Dear e-druggers,

I have a thought and maybe some people here are experts in the matter. How
much prescribing habits of physicians are drive by the industry commercial
messages? or another way to put the question where do prescribers get most
of their prescribing information from?

This has been bothering me for a while as I am seeing more and more
prescribing habits are influenced by industry where the main source of
information is from the industry?

Comments and thoughts would be much appreciated.

Best

Sally
Pharmacist
Hong Kong
[affiliation and country are always needed - added by moderator]
Sally Ho <siuluen.sally@gmail.com>

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E-DRUG: Industry influencing prescribing (2)
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Sally,

I hope this helps:

Spurling GK, Mansfield PR, Montgomery BD, Lexchin J, Doust J, Othman N, Vitry AI.

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

PLoS Med. 2010 Oct 19;7(10):e1000352.
www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000352

Peter

Dr Peter R Mansfield OAM BMBS
GP
www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/peter.mansfield
Founder, Healthy Skepticism Inc
www.healthyskepticism.org
Peter Mansfield <peter.mansfield@adelaide.edu.au>