A
recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
entitled “Pharmaceutical Industry-Sponsored Meals and Physician
Prescribing Patterns
for Medicare Beneficiaries,” has received a ton of media attention
lately, from the The Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg to NPR.
But despite the hype, the study uses questionable methodology and draws
biased conclusions.
Read what the study got wrong in this new article, Are Doctors Really Writing Prescriptions for a Free Meal?
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