Do advertisements in clinical software influence prescribing?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-14

  Mansfield, Peter R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Healthy Skepticism Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRESCRIPTION; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AUSTRALIA; DRUG INDUSTRY; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 42149194397     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01496.x     Document Type: Note

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