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Do advertisements for antihypertensive drugs in Australia promote quality prescribing? A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Antihypertensive medications are widely prescribed by doctors and heavily promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. Despite strong evidence of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of thiazide diuretics, trends in both promotion and prescription of antihypertensive drugs favour newer,...

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Autores principales: Montgomery, Brett D, Mansfield, Peter R, Spurling, Geoffrey K, Ward, Alison M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18492241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-167