Polish physicians' cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry and its potential impact on public health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This article aims to describe how Polish physicians cooperate with the pharmaceutical industry and show how this relationship may pose a threat to public health.

Methods

It considers the results of an online survey of 379 physicians. The survey was hosted by surveymonkey.com with links from a Polish physicians' website (Medycyna Praktyczna) between 29 October 2013 and 31 December 2013. The sample was purposive, respondents having to be physicians working in Poland.

Results

The majority of respondents (96.8%) said that they had talked with pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) in their practice, with 85% saying that they had had regular contact with them. Despite the existing legal ban in Poland, 35% of respondents admitted that they had usually met wit

SUBMITTER: Makowska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5604986 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature