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Publication type: Journal Article

Melo M, Braga R.
As visitas dos Delegados de Informação Médica: Qual a utilidade da sua informação? [The Pharmaceutical Representatives: Critical Evaluation]
Rev Port Clin Geral 2003 Sep; 19:(5):503-9
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Abstract:

A elevada quantidade de informação disponível torna importante que o médico adopte métodos de selecção relativos à informação útil apresentada pelos Delegados de Informação Médica (DIM). A utilidade da informação depende da sua relevância e da sua credibilidade científica. Neste artigo são discutidos os critérios de relevância e de avaliação da credibilidade científica a aplicar nas visitas dos DIM, de forma a maximizar a utilidade da visita, bem como a postura a adoptar, tendo em vista uma prescrição mais racional.
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There is a growing interest about the necessary skills to critical reading and evaluation of medical information from the pharmaceutical representatives. The utility of information depends on its relevance and validity. Clinical decisions should be based on good information. In this paper we describe strategies to select efficiently the most useful information. Armed with these strategies, clinicians can find the most appropriate information, evaluate it quickly, and apply it confidently to provide the best care for the patients

Keywords:
Delegados de Informação, Investigação; Clínica Geral; Epidemiologia Clinica; Pharmaceutical Representatives; Critical Appraisal; Family Practice; Research; Clinical Epidemiology.


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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909