ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2002
For and against: Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience: For.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Benefits and harms of direct to consumer advertising: a systematic review.Quality & safety in health care · 2005Pooled it
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- Prevalence of pharmaceutical industry conspiracy theories among the polish population.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Antibiotic Resistance and Probiotics: Knowledge Gaps, Market Overview and Preliminary Screening.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Innovation, advertising, personal selling, and sustainability in the industries massively benefited from major public health emergencies: paradoxical evidence from China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Use of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Pharmaceutical Advertisements in Televised and Print Formats as a Teaching Tool in a Pharmacy Curriculum.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Cross-sectional study of medical advertisements in a national general medical journal: evidence, cost, and safe use of advertised versus comparative drugs.Research integrity and peer review · 2021Article
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- The Evolution of Self-Reported Urinary and Sexual Dysfunction over the Last Two Decades: Implications for Comparative Effectiveness Research.European urology · 2015Article
- Independent review of social and population variation in mental health could improve diagnosis in DSM revisions.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2013Article
- A Pill for the Ill? Patients' Reports of Their Experience of the Medical Encounter in the Treatment of Depression.PloS one · 2013Article
- Response.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2013Article
- Improving health promotion to American Indians in the midwest United States: preferred sources of health information and its use for the medical encounter.Journal of community health · 2012Article
- Nation-scale adoption of new medicines by doctors: an application of the Bass diffusion model.BMC health services research · 2012Article
- Is there a doctor in the house? : The presence of physicians in the direct-to-consumer genetic testing context.Journal of community genetics · 2012Article
- A decade of controversy: balancing policy with evidence in the regulation of prescription drug advertising.American journal of public health · 2010Article
- On the biomedicalization of alcoholism.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2009Article
- "Compliance" to "concordance": a critical view.The Journal of medical humanities · 2007Review
- A history of drug advertising: the evolving roles of consumers and consumer protection.The Milbank quarterly · 2006Article
- Serotonin and depression: a disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature.PLoS medicine · 2005Review
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