Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4021
Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.
Publication type: Journal Article
Wilkes MS, Shuchman M.
Pitching doctors.
N Y Times Mag 1989 Nov 5; 88, 90, 126, 128-129
Abstract:
This article is a broad survey of the methods used by pharmaceutical companies to promote their products. It covers topics such as gift giving, sales representatives and sponsoring continuing medical education programs. Some professional organizations such as the Infectious Disease Society of American have developed ethical guidelines but have little power to enforce them. Research money from drug companies is used as an entry to get doctors to request that hospitals add drugs to their formularies. The industry has also been accused of using its advertising power to control the content of some medical journals.
Keywords:
*feature story/United States/regulation of promotion/guidelines, discussion of/Food and Drug Administration/FDA/gift giving/sales representatives/continuing medical education/corporate funding/drug company sponsored research/formularies/hospitals/editorial freedom/ad revenue/doctors/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: PAYMENT FOR MEALS, ACCOMODATION, TRAVEL, ENTERTAINMENT/EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: DETAILING/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: FORMULARY INCLUSION/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: MARKET SHARE/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PRESCRIBING, DRUG USE/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PUBLICATION/PROMOTION AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION: DOCTORS/PROMOTION DISGUISED: SUPPORT FOR CME/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: DIRECT GOVERNMENT REGULATION/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/SPONSORSHIP: RESEARCH/VOLUME OF AND EXPENDITURE ON PROMOTIONMeSH Terms:
Advertising
Biomedical Research
Conflict of Interest
Drug Industry*
Economics*
Editorial Policies
Ethics, Medical
Federal Government
Financial Support
Government
Government Regulation
Hospitals
Humans
Information Dissemination
Information Services
Motivation*
Patient Care
Pharmaceutical Preparations*
Physicians*
Publishing
Research
Scientific Misconduct
Social Control, Formal
United States
United States Food and Drug Administration
Universities
