Association between physicians’ interaction with pharmaceutical companies and their clinical practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Hneine Brax ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hneine Brax, Racha Fadlallah

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Racha Fadlallah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hneine Brax, Racha Fadlallah

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Center for Systematic Reviews of Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Lina Al-Khaled,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Lara A. Kahale,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Hala Nas,

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria

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• Fadi El-Jardali,

  Affiliations Center for Systematic Reviews of Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Health Management and Policy, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Elie A. Akl

  * E-mail: ea32@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliations Center for Systematic Reviews of Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3444-8618

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