BACKGROUND The present study aimed to describe exposure and attitudes of French medical residents towards pharmaceutical industry. The study was performed shortly after the Mediator affair which revealed several serious conflicts of interest inside the French health system. METHODS AND FINDINGS A cross-sectional study was implemented among residents from 6 French medical faculties. Independen...

With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measure, this study tries to design an integrated PM model for pharmaceutical companies. For generating this model; we first identified the key performance indicators (KPIs) and the key result indicators (KRIs) of a typical pharmaceutical company. Then, based on experts᾽ opinions, the identified ...

This paper is an in depth analysis of the influence that investment into research and development has on a firm’s profitability in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States. The pharmaceutical industry is chosen due to its high intensity of research and development expenditures. The top 16 companies in the pharmaceutical industry are analyzed through regression analysis. The argument mad...

tissue culture came after 19 years in a job I loved at a small pharmaceutical company (although in this first case no one actually offered me any tissues). Having been at the company for such a long time, I felt I had some job security. But I found out how wrong I was when the company was sold. Part of me understood that losing my job this way was “just business,” but I still felt a deep profes...

Medical representatives bear the blunt of the significant pressure from the peers and managers to accomplish their market targets which call for an aggressive promotion. This inevitably leads to unethical practices by medical representatives in the sales field. Study of ethic codes influence on ethical behavior of medical representatives in the profession is an under-portrayed component which d...

. This paper investigates the pharmaceutical reverse supply chain. For this industry, the reverse supply chain is usually not owned by a single company. A decentralized negotiation process is thus presented in order to coordinate the collection of unwanted medications at customer zones. Using a Lagrangian relaxation method, the model is solved for a real generic pharmaceutical company. Coordina...

QSP-10 APPLICATION OF AN IN SILICO PHYSIOLOGICALLY BASED PHARMACOKINETIC MODEL TO SIMULATE ORAL DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY OF ATORVASTATIN ACID AND CYCLOSPORINE POST BARIATRIC SURGERY. A. S. Darwich,1 D. Pade,2 K. Rowland-Yeo,2 M. Jamei,2 A. Åsberg,3 H. Christensen,3 D. M. Ashcroft,1 A. Rostami-Hodjegan1; 1Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingd...