摘要: The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) is a widely used source of drug information by American physicians and patients, but as we shall discuss, it suffers from numerous shortcomings.1ThePDRis collection written pictorial that provided paid for pharmaceutical manufacturers. material given compilation data recommendations are identical to those in the drug's package insert. wording directives included these inserts (and thus thePDR) represent companies permitted present following discussion approval Food Drug Administration (FDA), Rockville, Md. ThePDRis negotiated effort commercial enterprises governmental regulators.