Pharmaceutical Advertising in Emergency Departments

Should Academic Emergency Departments Collaborate in Pharmaceutical Industry-Sponsored Research?

Historically, academic centers have been the venue for conducting important clinical trials. Teams of welltrained investigators functioning in well controlled settings have set the standard for rigorous scientific design and data interpretation in clinical trials. Institutional review boards have contributed to research subject safety and minimization of scientific misconduct. This system has b...

Running head: PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING

Triage in Norwegian emergency departments.

BACKGROUND An increasing number of patients and stricter requirements for quality and efficiency in the management of emergency patients have spurred several Norwegian emergency departments (EDs) to introduce triage as one of several measures. This introduction has taken place without any accompanying research. We therefore wanted to investigate the use and organisation of triage, as well as th...

Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising

Types of Advertisements There are currently several types of DTC drug advertisements (Table 1).5,11 One type is the “help-seeking ad,” which provides only information about a medical condition and encourages patients to contact their physician but doesn’t mention a product.5,11 Another category is the “reminder ad,” which includes the product name; this type may provide information about streng...

Emergency departments reduce admissions

Background It has been discussed whether emergency departments (EDs) reduce hospital admissions or not, and if the high turnover of patients results in higher readmission rates. Region Zealand was one of the first regions in Denmark to establish EDs, where all the acute patients for the hospital should be received: Køge and Holbæk (no beds, doctors employed by and working only in the ED), Nykøb...