Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4090

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Publication type: Journal Article

Potter HP.
Physicians and the pharmaceutical industry
Annals of Internal Medicine 1990; 113:407

Abstract:

Additional concerns beyond those raised in the guidelines include the effect of drug promotion on the cost of care and on the proliferation of unsolicited medical literature.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/United States/ direct mail/ controlled circulation journals/ consumer drug prices/ quality of information/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: CONSUMER DRUG COSTS/PROMOTION DISGUISED: JOURNAL SUPPLEMENTS, CONTROLLED CIRCULATION JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS