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

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 293-294

  Gough, Ian R ^a   Dickinson, Ian ^a   Maddern, Guy ^a   Grigg, Michael ^a   Hillis, David J ^a  

^a ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUTOREGULATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SURGEON; TRAINING; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ETHICS; GIFT GIVING; HUMAN; NOTE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; TRUST;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DRUG INDUSTRY; GIFT GIVING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; TRUST;

EID: 77950600525     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03517.x     Document Type: Letter

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