Healthy Skepticism Library item: 5013

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Publication type: Journal Article

Huston P.
Doctors want more industry-sponsored meetings
Medical Marketing & Media 1993; 28:(3):48-50, 52-53

Abstract:

Medical journal articles are the physician’s source of choice for useful information about drugs. But company-sponsored group meetings are where most changes are occurring. Doctors want more of these meetings despite the restrictions imposed by guidelines from the American Medical Association and proposed guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration.

Keywords:
*news story/United States/drug company sponsored meals and travel/doctors/source of information/regulation of promotion/sales representatives/consumer drug prices/American Medical Association/AMA/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: PAYMENT FOR MEALS, ACCOMODATION, TRAVEL, ENTERTAINMENT/EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: PROMOTIONAL DINNERS/PROMOTION AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION: DOCTORS/PROMOTIONAL TECHNIQUES: DETAILING/PROMOTIONAL TECHNIQUES: PROMOTIONAL DINNERS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: DIRECT GOVERNMENT REGULATION/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS