Winds of change: Growing demands for transparency in the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 273-275

  Mitchell, Philip B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DRUG INDUSTRY; GIFT GIVING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PUBLISHING; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 77149174063     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02783.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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