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 adv...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Gettings, Braden O'Neill, Dave A Chokshi, James A Colbert, Peter Gill, Gerald Lebovic, Joel Lexchin, Navindra Persaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885602?pdf=render