Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare

Medicines have made an appreciable contribution to improving health. However, even high-income countries are struggling to fund new premium-priced medicines. This will grow necessitating the development of new models to optimize their use. The objective is to review case histories among health authorities to improve t…

• ELİF HİLAL VURAL

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Randomised controlled trial (RCT) abstracts published in journal articles have traditionally been deficient of crucial information. To improve the quality of RCT abstracts, in January 2008, the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trial (CONSORT) group published a checklist of essential inform…

• FİLİZ ALKAYA SOLMAZ

BACKGROUND: Commercial sources of information are known to have greater influence than scientific sources on general practitioners' (GPs) prescribing behavior in under developed and developing countries. The study aimed to determine the self-reported impact of pharmaceutical promotion on the decision-making process of…

BACKGROUND: Commercial sources of information are known to have greater influence than scientific sources on general practitioners' (GPs) prescribing behavior in under developed and developing countries. The study aimed to determine the self-reported impact of pharmaceutical promotion on the decision-making process of…

• ELİF OKŞAN ÇALIKOĞLU

Although physicians learn about new medical technologies from their peers, the magnitude and source of peer influence is unknown. We estimate the effect of peer adoption of three first-in-class medications (dabigatran, sitigliptin, and aliskiren) on physicians' own adoption of those medications. We included 11,958 phy…

• HASAN GÜÇLÜ

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• PERİHAN ELİF EKMEKCİ

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Previous studies in the United States and the United Kingdom have shown that stroke research is underfunded compared with coronary heart disease (CHD) and cancer research despite the high clinical and financial burden of stroke. We aimed to determine whether underfunding of stroke research is a…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to provide insight into the acceptance and publication times of articles submitted to international otolaryngology journals. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study was carried out by examining the top 37 journal titles returned in an online search for otolaryngology journals published fro…

• OĞUZ KADİR EĞİLMEZ

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to provide insight into the acceptance and publication times of articles submitted to international otolaryngology journals. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study was carried out by examining the top 37 journal titles returned in an online search for otolaryngology journals published fro…

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• HAYRİYE GÖZDE KANMAZ KUTMAN

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• YILDIZ AKVARDAR

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• HASAN GÜÇLÜ