Pharmaceutical company sponsorship of doctors: is gender equity a concern?

Mintzes, Barbara; Menkes, David B

doi:10.5694/mja2.52088

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Pharmaceutical companies often provide gifts and payments to doctors and other health professionals. Such support is associated with greater prescribing of promoted medicines,1 including more expensive drugs without advantages compared with standard treatment.2

1 Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2 The University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand

Correspondence: barbara.mintzes@sydney.edu.au

Acknowledgements:

We thank Joel Lexchin (York University, Toronto, Canada) for reviewing successive drafts of the manuscript.

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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