Bad company? 'Industry' brand turns doctors off
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Physicians are half as likely to prescribe drugs studied in industry-funded clinical trials as they are to prescribe drugs from independently funded trials. Indeed, the mere mention of industry turns many physicians off even reading the published studies. These are the take home messages from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine today.
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