Low Rates of Reporting Commercial Bias by Physicians Following Online Continuing Medical Education Activities

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 875-878

  Ellison, Julie A ^a   Hennekens, Charles H ^b   Wang, Jing ^a   Lundberg, George D ^a   Sulkes, Destry ^a  

^a Medscape LLC   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial bias; Conflict of interest; Continuing medical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNDING; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMMERCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 68749110690     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.02.026     Document Type: Article

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