Interactions of doctors with the pharmaceutical industry (accepting
free drug samples)
Journal of Medical Ethics: 2006 32:559-563
=93Most respondents (doctors) thought it proper to accept drug samples
(92%)=85 A third (33%) of the respondents thought that their own
decision to prescribe a drug would probably be influenced by accepting
drug samples=85 Respondents who distributed drug samples to patients
indicated doing so because of patients=92 financial need (94%) and for
their convenience (76%) and less so as a result of knowledge of the
efficacy of the sample product (63%)=85
http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/10/559
also found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17012493;http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=3DafficheN&cpsidt=3D18138555
