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Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland

Introduction: Primary care physicians need to have access to up-to-date knowledge in various fields of medicine and high-quality information sources, but little is known about the use and credibility of sources of information on medicinal products among Polish doctors. The main goal of this study wa...

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Autores principales: Zielińska, Magdalena, Hermanowski, Tomasz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8770910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35069213
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.801845
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description Introduction: Primary care physicians need to have access to up-to-date knowledge in various fields of medicine and high-quality information sources, but little is known about the use and credibility of sources of information on medicinal products among Polish doctors. The main goal of this study was to analyze the sources of information on medicinal products among primary care physicians in Poland. Methods: A survey was conducted among 316 primary care physicians in Poland. The following information was collected: demographic data of participants, type and frequency of using data sources on medicinal products, barriers to access credible information, assessment of the credibility of the sources used, impact of a given source and other factors on prescription decisions. Results: The most frequently mentioned sources of information were medical representatives (79%), medical journals (78%) and congresses, conventions, conferences, and training (76%). The greatest difficulty in finding the latest information about medicinal products was the lack of time. The surveyed doctors considered clinical guidelines to be the most credible source of information, and this source also had the greatest impact on the choice of prescribed medicinal products. Conclusion: The study showed that clinicians consider clinical guidelines as the most credible source of information with the greatest impact on prescribing medicinal products. However, it is not the source most often mentioned by doctors for obtaining knowledge about medicinal products. There is a need to develop strategies and tools to provide physicians with credible sources of information.
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spelling pubmed-87709102022-01-21 Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland Zielińska, Magdalena Hermanowski, Tomasz Front Pharmacol Pharmacology Introduction: Primary care physicians need to have access to up-to-date knowledge in various fields of medicine and high-quality information sources, but little is known about the use and credibility of sources of information on medicinal products among Polish doctors. The main goal of this study was to analyze the sources of information on medicinal products among primary care physicians in Poland. Methods: A survey was conducted among 316 primary care physicians in Poland. The following information was collected: demographic data of participants, type and frequency of using data sources on medicinal products, barriers to access credible information, assessment of the credibility of the sources used, impact of a given source and other factors on prescription decisions. Results: The most frequently mentioned sources of information were medical representatives (79%), medical journals (78%) and congresses, conventions, conferences, and training (76%). The greatest difficulty in finding the latest information about medicinal products was the lack of time. The surveyed doctors considered clinical guidelines to be the most credible source of information, and this source also had the greatest impact on the choice of prescribed medicinal products. Conclusion: The study showed that clinicians consider clinical guidelines as the most credible source of information with the greatest impact on prescribing medicinal products. However, it is not the source most often mentioned by doctors for obtaining knowledge about medicinal products. There is a need to develop strategies and tools to provide physicians with credible sources of information. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8770910/ /pubmed/35069213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.801845 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zielińska and Hermanowski. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zielińska, Magdalena
Hermanowski, Tomasz
Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland
title Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland
title_full Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland
title_fullStr Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland
title_full_unstemmed Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland
title_short Sources of Information on Medicinal Products Among Physicians – A Survey Conducted Among Primary Care Physicians in Poland
title_sort sources of information on medicinal products among physicians – a survey conducted among primary care physicians in poland
topic Pharmacology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8770910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35069213
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.801845
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