Pharmaceutical company websites as sources of information for consumers: How appropriate and informative are they?

Disease Management and Health Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 205-214

  Griffiths, Kathleen M ^a   Christensen, Helen ^a   Evans, Kimberley ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; CONSUMER; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG INFORMATION; INTERNET; REVIEW;

EID: 0036235662     PISSN: 11738790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00115677-200210040-00001     Document Type: Review

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