Quality of pharmaceutical industry press releases based on original research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kuriya, Bindee ^a   Schneid, Elana C ^b   Bell, Chaim M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG RESEARCH; ELECTRONICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MEDLINE; PEER REVIEW; PRESCRIPTION; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; ADVERTIZING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMERCE; DRUG INDUSTRY; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 50949129562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002828     Document Type: Article

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