Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3532
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Publication type: Journal Article
Post-marketing surveillance by drug manufacturers
Lancet 1988; 2:977
Abstract:
In practice most company sponsored postmarketing surveillance studies are promotional. The medical directors of many companies indicated that they did not regard company-sponsored studies as an effective means of obtaining information about a drug’s safety.
Keywords:
*news story/United Kingdom/ postmarketing research/ drug company sponsored research/ safety & risk information/EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: DRUG SAFETY/PROMOTION DISGUISED: POSTMARKETING RESEARCH