Stigmatising pharmaceutical advertisements

Pharmaceutical advertisements in prescribing software: an analysis.

OBJECTIVE To assess pharmaceutical advertisements in prescribing software, their adherence to code standards, and the opinions of general practitioners regarding the advertisements. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Content analysis of advertisements displayed by Medical Director version 2.81 (Health Communication Network, Sydney, NSW) in early 2005; thematic analysis of a debate on this topic...

Quality of Pharmaceutical Advertisements in Medical Journals: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND Journal advertising is one of the main sources of medicines information to doctors. Despite the availability of regulations and controls of drug promotion worldwide, information on medicines provided in journal advertising has been criticized in several studies for being of poor quality. However, no attempt has been made to systematically summarise this body of research. We designed ...

Correction: Differences in the Volume of Pharmaceutical Advertisements between Print General Medical Journals

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical advertisements have been argued to provide revenue that medical journals require but they are intended to alter prescribing behaviour and they are known to include low quality information. We determined whether a difference exists in the current level of pharmaceutical advertising in print general medical journals, and we estimated the revenue generated from print phar...

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Adequacy of pharmacological information provided in pharmaceutical drug advertisements in African medical journals

UNLABELLED Pharmaceutical advertisement of drugs is a means of advocating drug use and their selling but not a substitute for drug formulary to guide physicians in safe prescribing. OBJECTIVES To evaluate drug advertisements in Nigerian and other African medical journals for their adequacy of pharmacological information. METHODS Twenty four issues from each of West African Journal of Medici...