Healthy Skepticism Library item: 644
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Publication type: Journal Article
[No authors listed]
Pharmacists can sell data, college says
CMAJ 1996; 154:1881
http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-154/1881a-e.htm
Keywords:
*news story
Canada
IMS
Ontario College of Pharmacists
selling prescribing information
Ontario Medical Association
pharmacies and pharmacists
doctors
ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: SELLING PRESCRIBING INFORMATION
Notes:
The Ontario College of Pharmacists said that pharmacists can sell information on physicians’ prescribing practices to IMS Canada, a health information company. The Ontario Medical Association is against the practice.