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The Association of Pharmaceutical Company Promotional Spending With Resident Physician Prescribing Behavior

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Frederick Y. Huang M.D., Daniel S. Weiss M.D., Paul G. Fenimore M.D., Anne M. Fleming M.D., Ellen Haller M.D., Jonathan E. Lichtmacher M.D. & Stuart J. Eisendrath M.D.

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03339774.

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Huang, F.Y., Weiss, D.S., Fenimore, P.G. et al. The Association of Pharmaceutical Company Promotional Spending With Resident Physician Prescribing Behavior. Acad Psychiatry 29, 500–501 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.29.5.500

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