How to dance with porcupines: rules and guidelines on doctors' relations with drug companies.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Interaction between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry: A scoping review for developing a policy brief.Frontiers in public health · 2022
   Article
2. Regulating the relationship between physicians and pharmaceutical companies: a qualitative and descriptive analysis of the impact of Israeli legislation.Israel journal of health policy research · 2017
   Article
3. Big Pharma: a former insider's view.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2013
   Article
4. Soft targets: nurses and the pharmaceutical industry.PLoS medicine · 2008
   Review
5. Of porcupines and poodles--a joint challenge to industry and the profession.International urogynecology journal and pelvic floor dysfunction · 2007
   Article
6. Interactions of doctors with the pharmaceutical industry.Journal of medical ethics · 2006
   Article
7. What patients think about promotional activities of pharmaceutical companies in Turkey.Pharmacy world & science : PWS · 2006
   Article
8. Public welfare agenda or corporate research agenda?Mens sana monographs · 2005
   Article
9. [Analysis of the relationship between primary care doctors and the pharmaceutical industry].Atencion primaria · 2004
   Article
10. [Working out a questionnaire to study the relationship between doctors and the drug industry].Atencion primaria · 2004
    Article
11. No more free lunches: how to dance with porcupines.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
    Article
12. No more free lunches.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
    Article

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  No more free lunches: how to dance with porcupines.2003

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as