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No Free Lunch was a US -based advocacy organization holding that marketing methods employed by drug companies influence the way doctors and other healthcare providers prescribe medications. [1] The group did outreach to convince physicians to refuse to accept gifts, money, or hospitality from pharmaceutical companies because it claims that ...
Free samples have been shown to affect physician prescribing behavior. Physicians with access to free samples are more likely to prescribe brand name medication over equivalent generic medications. [2] Other studies found that free samples decreased the likelihood that physicians would follow the standard of care practices. [2]
Ze339 is indicated for seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever). The ingredient has been evaluated in placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical studies. Ze339 was shown to be as effective as the antihistamines cetirizine and fexofenadine. [1][2] Against desloratadine, an improved version of loratadine, Ze339 had better efficacy in relieving ...
Pharmaceutical sales representatives or Medical sales respresentatives[ 1 ] are salespeople employed by pharmaceutical companies to persuade doctors to prescribe their drugs to patients. Drug companies in the United States spend ~$5 billion annually sending representatives to doctors, [ 2 ] to provide product information, answer questions on ...
OpenNotes is a research initiative and international movement located at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (affiliated with Harvard Medical School), that focuses on making health care more open and transparent by encouraging doctors, nurses, therapists, and other health care professionals to share clinical visit notes with patients, facilitating patients' legal right to access to their own ...
Physicians' Desk Reference. The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), renamed Prescriber's Digital Reference after its physical publication was discontinued, is a compilation of manufacturers' prescribing information (package insert) on prescription drugs, updated regularly and published by ConnectiveRx. [citation needed]
Medical device (such as hearing aids, for example) may be specified by a type of prescription. Off-label use – Use of pharmaceuticals for conditions different from that for which they were approved. Prescription analytics. Prescription charges – Charges for medical prescriptions on the UK NHS, and in Ireland.
A free sample or "freebie" is a portion of food or other product (for example beauty products) given to consumers in shopping malls, supermarkets, retail stores, or through other channels (such as via the Internet). [1] Sometimes samples of non-perishable items are included in direct marketing mailings. The purpose of a free sample is to ...