A new study reveals that doctors who got a free meal from a pharmaceutical company were more likely to prescribe amedication that the drug company was promoting. The pricier the meals, the more prescribing rates for the drugs went up.
In the study published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers looked at government data on pharmaceutical company payments and how they may be correlated with U.S. doctors’ prescriptions choices for heart drugs and an antidepressant.
