| Title |
Assessing Website Pharmacy Drug Quality: Safer Than You Think?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2010
|
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0012199 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Roger Bate, Kimberly Hess |
| Abstract |
Internet-sourced drugs are often considered suspect. The World Health Organization reports that drugs from websites that conceal their physical address are counterfeit in over 50 percent of cases; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to regularly update a list of websites likely to sell drugs that are illegal or of questionable quality. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Finland | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 21% |
| Researcher | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 19 | 25% |
| Unknown | 10 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 24% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 11% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 17 | 22% |
| Unknown | 12 | 16% |