Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2871

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Publication type: Journal Article

Eaton G, Parish P.
General practitioners' views of information about drugs.
J R Coll Gen Pract 1976; 26:

Abstract:

Doctors were questioned about whether they could get an unbiased assessment of a newly introduced drug and what source of information they would use to do so. Most of the doctors who felt that they couldn’t obtain unbiased information felt that most information was too commercial.

Keywords:
analytic survey/United Kingdom/primary care doctors/attitude toward promotion/source of information/new drugs/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS/EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: GENERAL QUALITY OF INFORMATION/PROMOTION AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION: DOCTORS Advertising Drug Industry Drug Therapy Education, Medical Family Practice* Great Britain Humans Pharmaceutical Preparations*