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PubMed1998

Self-regulatory codes of conduct: are they effective in controlling pharmaceutical representatives' presentations to general medical practitioners?

Self-regulatory codes of conduct are used to control the promotional practices of the pharmaceutical industry, but the effectiveness of these codes in controlling pharmaceutical representatives' presentations has not been examined. This is a matter of concern because pharmaceutical representatives have more influence than any other promotional media on prescribing practices. The authors developed a method for monitoring the oral presentations of pharmaceutical representatives when promoting products to medical practitioners. Sixteen audio-recordings, detailing 64 medicines, were obtained; 38 of the 64 products were prescription-only medicines. Information on indications and on dosage and administration was commonly provided, but information on other areas of drug knowledge, particularly product risk, was minimal. Thirteen presentations contained at least one inaccuracy when compared with Australian Approved Product Information. Presentations did not always comply with current guidelines in the Code of Conduct. The Code provides only limited standards for pharmaceutical representatives' presentations, and no active monitoring system is in place to ensure adherence to the code. There is an urgent need for policy development on the role of pharmaceutical representatives, their standards of practice, and regulation of their activities to ensure they contribute to the appropriate use of medicines.

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PubMed1998

[Practitioner's freedom to prescribe in relation to the requirements of the AMM, the medical references and the socioeconomic constraints].

The freedom of prescription is registered in texts which have a legislative value: le Health Code, the social security code, the medical deontology code. The control of prescription conditions for certain classes of medicines meets some economic and Health targets. The authorization to put products on the market concerns the medicines produced industrially. The instructions and opposing medical references are tools that could allow "the medicalized control of Health cost evolution" mandated by the National Convention which links the liberal doctors and the organisms of social protection. Their non-respect can involve sanctions for the doctors who have signed the convention but do not constitute at the very outset a fault in the words of civil liability. The freedom of prescription, information and consent of the patient are undissociable. In the name of freedom the responsibility of the practitioner is involved. The faults are classified in two categories: breach of medical humanism, breach of rules of medical art. The aim of the regulation consists in the optimum prescription. Freedom and regulation go together with professionalism and good citizenship.

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