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Hospital pharmacists' expectations of the medical representatives (MRs) of pharmaceutical companies have been increasing as their work has become more sophisticated and diversified in recent years. Since only a limited amount of information on the expectations of MRs is available, we conducted a questionnaire survey of hospital pharmacists. The questionnaire was sent to 42 national university hospitals, and 104 pharmacists from 22 hospitals responded. According to the results, much used drug information provided by MRs included safety information (78.8%), instruction on use (73.1%), and that on drug interactions contraindications (63.5%) and effectiveness (62.5%). Seventy-six percent of the pharmacists responding considered that drug information provided by MRs was reliable.
In the future, they said they would like MRs to provide information as fast as possible using information technology. They also said they would like MRs to provide more tailor-made information. Only 13.5% of the pharmacists felt that MRs fed back their requests concerning drug development to pharmaceutical company research laboratories. It is therefore necessary to find ways of improving such feedback as soon as possible.
