Better the devil you know than the doctor you don't: Is advertising drugs to doctors more harmful than advertising to patients?

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-239

  Vaithianathan, Rhema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DEREGULATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG MARKETING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATERNALISM; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADVERTISING; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750324295     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/135581906778476616     Document Type: Review

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