Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2931

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Publication type: Journal Article

Holmes JD.
Drug costs
New Zealand Medical Journal 1977; 86:349

Abstract:

There is no independent source of drug information in New Zealand. Until an alternative source is available, prescribers will continue to depend upon the manufacturers’ information. This tends to have the bias of a market economy which stimulates the use of drugs as an economic growth point.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/New Zealand/source of information/quality of prescribing/doctors/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PRESCRIBING, DRUG USE