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'''PharmedOut''' (PhO) is a [[Georgetown University Medical Center]] project founded in 2006. It is directed by [[Adriane Fugh-Berman]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lamb|first1=Brian|authorlink1=Brian Lamb|title=Q&A: Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?324510-1/qa-dr-adriane-fughberman|website=C-SPAN.org|date=February 23, 2015}}</ref> The stated mission of the organization is to empower prescribers and other healthcare professionals to identify and counter inappropriate [[pharmaceutical sales representative|pharmaceutical promotion practices]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pharmed out|url=https://www.economist.com/news/business/21602689-why-row-over-giant-drug-company-takeovers-misses-point-pharmed-out|website=[[The Economist]]|date=May 24, 2014}}</ref>
'''PharmedOut''' (PhO) is a [[Georgetown University Medical Center]] project founded in 2006. It is directed by [[Adriane Fugh-Berman]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lamb|first1=Brian|authorlink1=Brian Lamb|title=Q&A: Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?324510-1/qa-dr-adriane-fughberman|website=C-SPAN.org|date=February 23, 2015}}</ref> The stated mission of the organization is to advance evidence-based prescribing and educate healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices. Stated goals are to: 1. Document and disseminate information about how pharmaceutical companies influence prescribing 2. Foster access to unbiased information about drugs and 3. Encourage physicians to choose pharma-free CME (continuing medical education).<ref>http://pharmedout.org/aboutus.html</ref>

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This organization provides healthcare professionals with pharma-free [[continuing medical education]] (CME) and resources <ref>http://pharmedout.org/resources.html</ref>to unbiased drug information. PharmedOut was founded with funds from the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education grant program.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Carl|title=Pharmed Out: an Interview With Adriane Fugh-Berman|url=http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/pharmed-out-an-interview-with-adriane-fugh-berman/47193|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Brainstorm|date=22 May 2012}}</ref> Since 2008, PharmedOut has been financially supported by individual donations and largely staffed by a volunteer team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, scientists, lawyers, students, artists and writers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Basken|first1=Paul|title=Lessons From a Professor’s 10-Year Fight to Rein In Pharmaceutical Promotion|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Lessons-From-a-Professor-s/240404|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=20 June 2017}}</ref>

PharmedOut criticizes some medical research and practices, including overprescription of opioids,<ref>https://www.nwhn.org/women-opioid-epidemic/</ref><ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-opioids-myths-pain-killers-medication-0122-20180119-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.nwhn.org/rx-change-obfuscating-opioid-risks/
</ref> industry construction of and influence on perceptions of diseases and symptoms,<ref>http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR35.3/fugh-berman.php</ref><ref>https://www.nwhn.org/rx-for-change-binge-eating-disorder-another-invented-disease-brought-to-you-by-pharma/</ref> misleading information about the benefits of harms of testosterone,<ref> http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162480</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28795961</ref> menopausal hormone therapy,<ref>http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000425
</ref><ref>http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000335</ref>, flibanserin<ref>http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/10/859.long</ref><ref>Hogenmiller A, Hirsch A, Fugh-Berman A. The Score is Even. Bioethics Forum, June 14, 2017. http://www.thehastingscenter.org/the-score-is-even/</ref><ref>Hirsch A, Rebecca Holliman R, -Berman A. The Drug that Cried "Feminism". Bioethics Forum. March 17, 2015. https://www.thehastingscenter.org/the-drug-that-cried-feminism/</ref><ref>http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2015/09/25</ref><ref>http://contemporaryobgyn.modernmedicine.com/contemporary-obgyn/news/taking-sides-should-obgyns-prescribe-flibanserin-their-patients?page=0,3</ref> and Epipens<ref>https://www.thehastingscenter.org/epipens-sale-fear/</ref><ref>https://www.nwhn.org/rx-change-real-cost-epipen-shots-peanuts/</ref><ref>http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/sfl-epipens-oversold-overused-20161201-story.html</ref><ref> http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/sfl-doctor-responds-epipen-controversy-story.html</ref>.

Articles in peer-reviewed publications include an article about how Medicare prescribers who accept industry gifts prescribe more medications (and more expensive medications),<ref>https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186060</ref>, how industry uses social psychology to manipulate physicians,<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2286433</ref> pharmacist-industry relationships, <ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28097713</ref>an article on medical device salespeople and surgeons<ref>http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158510</ref>, an analysis of pharmaceutical marketing to people with hemophilia <ref>http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001996</ref>an analysis of how "key opinion leaders" are used to market drugs off-label<ref>http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050210</ref>, an explanation of drug rep tactics<ref>https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040150</ref>, an article on basic scientists and industry,<ref>http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001716</ref> and a study that documents the effect of Why Lunch Matters,<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20872775</ref> a presentation that is the first to document a significant change in physicians' perceptions about their own individual vulnerability to pharmaceutical marketing.

PharmedOut has also criticized industry support of continuing medical education <ref>http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2015/12/16/medethics-2015-103131.full.pdf+html</ref> and industry support of patient advocacy groups <ref>http://www.thehastingscenter.org/epipen-furor-patient-groups-take-money-stay-mum/</ref>, and has compiled a list of pharma-free patient advocacy groups <ref>http://pharmedout.org/pharma-free-groups.html</ref>


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This organization provides healthcare professionals with pharma-free [[continuing medical education]] (CME) and resources to unbiased drug information. PharmedOut was founded with funds from the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education grant program.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Carl|title=Pharmed Out: an Interview With Adriane Fugh-Berman|url=http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/pharmed-out-an-interview-with-adriane-fugh-berman/47193|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Brainstorm|date=22 May 2012}}</ref> Since 2008, PharmedOut has been financially supported by individual donations and largely staffed by a volunteer team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, scientists, lawyers, students, artists and writers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Basken|first1=Paul|title=Lessons From a Professor’s 10-Year Fight to Rein In Pharmaceutical Promotion|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Lessons-From-a-Professor-s/240404|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=20 June 2017}}</ref>


PharmedOut criticizes some medical research.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Henriques|first1=Carolina|title=PharmedOut Study Calls Out Marketing Strategies Directed to Hemophilia Patients|url=https://hemophilianewstoday.com/2016/06/16/direct-to-consumer-marketing-to-people-with-hemophilia/|website=Hemophilia News Today|date=16 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=PharmedOut Meta Study & predictable results {{!}} Move over Erin Brockovich|url=http://testosteroneresource.com/articles/mainstream-journalists-suckered-meta-study/|website=Testosterone Resource|date=17 November 2016}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:26, 28 January 2018

PharmedOut (PhO) is a Georgetown University Medical Center project founded in 2006. It is directed by Adriane Fugh-Berman.[1] The stated mission of the organization is to advance evidence-based prescribing and educate healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices. Stated goals are to: 1. Document and disseminate information about how pharmaceutical companies influence prescribing 2. Foster access to unbiased information about drugs and 3. Encourage physicians to choose pharma-free CME (continuing medical education).[2]

This organization provides healthcare professionals with pharma-free continuing medical education (CME) and resources [3]to unbiased drug information. PharmedOut was founded with funds from the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education grant program.[4] Since 2008, PharmedOut has been financially supported by individual donations and largely staffed by a volunteer team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, scientists, lawyers, students, artists and writers.[5]

PharmedOut criticizes some medical research and practices, including overprescription of opioids,[6][7][8] industry construction of and influence on perceptions of diseases and symptoms,[9][10] misleading information about the benefits of harms of testosterone,[11][12] menopausal hormone therapy,[13][14], flibanserin[15][16][17][18][19] and Epipens[20][21][22][23].

Articles in peer-reviewed publications include an article about how Medicare prescribers who accept industry gifts prescribe more medications (and more expensive medications),[24], how industry uses social psychology to manipulate physicians,[25] pharmacist-industry relationships, [26]an article on medical device salespeople and surgeons[27], an analysis of pharmaceutical marketing to people with hemophilia [28]an analysis of how "key opinion leaders" are used to market drugs off-label[29], an explanation of drug rep tactics[30], an article on basic scientists and industry,[31] and a study that documents the effect of Why Lunch Matters,[32] a presentation that is the first to document a significant change in physicians' perceptions about their own individual vulnerability to pharmaceutical marketing.

PharmedOut has also criticized industry support of continuing medical education [33] and industry support of patient advocacy groups [34], and has compiled a list of pharma-free patient advocacy groups [35]


References

  1. ^ Lamb, Brian (February 23, 2015). "Q&A: Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman". C-SPAN.org.
  2. ^ http://pharmedout.org/aboutus.html
  3. ^ http://pharmedout.org/resources.html
  4. ^ Elliott, Carl (22 May 2012). "Pharmed Out: an Interview With Adriane Fugh-Berman". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Brainstorm.
  5. ^ Basken, Paul (20 June 2017). "Lessons From a Professor's 10-Year Fight to Rein In Pharmaceutical Promotion". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  6. ^ https://www.nwhn.org/women-opioid-epidemic/
  7. ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-opioids-myths-pain-killers-medication-0122-20180119-story.html
  8. ^ https://www.nwhn.org/rx-change-obfuscating-opioid-risks/
  9. ^ http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR35.3/fugh-berman.php
  10. ^ https://www.nwhn.org/rx-for-change-binge-eating-disorder-another-invented-disease-brought-to-you-by-pharma/
  11. ^ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162480
  12. ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28795961
  13. ^ http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000425
  14. ^ http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000335
  15. ^ http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/10/859.long
  16. ^ Hogenmiller A, Hirsch A, Fugh-Berman A. The Score is Even. Bioethics Forum, June 14, 2017. http://www.thehastingscenter.org/the-score-is-even/
  17. ^ Hirsch A, Rebecca Holliman R, -Berman A. The Drug that Cried "Feminism". Bioethics Forum. March 17, 2015. https://www.thehastingscenter.org/the-drug-that-cried-feminism/
  18. ^ http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2015/09/25
  19. ^ http://contemporaryobgyn.modernmedicine.com/contemporary-obgyn/news/taking-sides-should-obgyns-prescribe-flibanserin-their-patients?page=0,3
  20. ^ https://www.thehastingscenter.org/epipens-sale-fear/
  21. ^ https://www.nwhn.org/rx-change-real-cost-epipen-shots-peanuts/
  22. ^ http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/sfl-epipens-oversold-overused-20161201-story.html
  23. ^ http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/sfl-doctor-responds-epipen-controversy-story.html
  24. ^ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186060
  25. ^ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2286433
  26. ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28097713
  27. ^ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158510
  28. ^ http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001996
  29. ^ http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050210
  30. ^ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040150
  31. ^ http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001716
  32. ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20872775
  33. ^ http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2015/12/16/medethics-2015-103131.full.pdf+html
  34. ^ http://www.thehastingscenter.org/epipen-furor-patient-groups-take-money-stay-mum/
  35. ^ http://pharmedout.org/pharma-free-groups.html
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