Publisher:
Pierre Chirac
President of Association Mieux Prescrire
ASSOCIATION
MIEUX PRESCRIRE
“To work, in all independence, in favour
of quality healthcare, first and
foremost in the interest of patients (...).”
(Article 1 of the Association Mieux Prescrire
bylaws).
Prescrire International
is a monthly journal
of selected texts translated from the French
journal
Prescrire
.
Prescrire International is published
11 times a year by Association Mieux
Prescrire, a non-profit continuing
education organisation
(N° 11 711 075) under the French law
of 1901.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Members of the Prescrire Editorial Staff sign
a yearly declaration of absence of conflicts
of interest, in accordance with Prescrire’s
“Non merci...” Charter. Members are free from
any interest contrary to Association Mieux
Prescrire’s objectives (the Charter and the
Declaration are available online at
english.prescrire.org).
Publishing reliable reviews that are easy to
use and adapted to readers’ needs depends
upon complex editorial procedures, all
initiated and overseen by the members of
Prescrire’s Editorial Staff. Members of the
Editorial Staff define editorial goals. They
oversee the literature search, the writing
and rewriting of texts, and the review by a
panel of outside experts (medical specialists,
methodologists, representatives of Prescrire’s
subscriber base…). They organise internal and
external quality control procedures, and edit
the final copy. Every draft is submitted,
before publication, to a large number of
external reviewers.
Prescrire
is a non-profit continuing education
organisation, committed to better patient care
Prescrire
and
Prescrire International
provide independent
information, by and for healthcare professionals.
For over 34 years,
Prescrire
has pro-
vided healthcare professionals – and
via them, patients – with the clear, com-
prehensive and reliable information they
need about drugs and therapeutic and
diagnostic strategies.
Prescrire
publishes a monthly journal
in French, and an international edition
in English 11 times a year, plus a yearly
supplement in French devoted to drug
interactions.
Prescrire
is a fully accredited con-
tinuing education organisation, and
offers continuing education and pro-
fessional practice improvement pro-
grammes specifically adapted to the
needs of healthcare professionals.
A non-profit organisation,
Prescrire
is
wholly financed by its subscribers, and
accepts no advertising or other outside
support.
Reliable and relevant
content
Prescrire
has the editorial and
research capabilities necessary to
ensure the accuracy of its reviews.
Prescrire’s
editors are healthcare pro-
fessionals, specially trained in
Pres-
crire’s
editorial methods and free from
conflicts of interest. Exacting quality
control procedures are applied to all
editorial content.
Independent information
The Association Mieux Prescrire, a
non-profit organisation registered under
the French law of 1901, manages all of
Prescrire’s programmes and publica-
tions. The AMP is structured so as to
be free of any influence from pharma-
ceutical companies or healthcare
institutions.
Prescrire’s
purpose is stated in Article 1
of the AMP bylaws: “To work, in all
independence, in favour of quality health-
care, first and foremost in the interest
of patients (...).”
Copyright Prescrire
Registered address:
83, bd Voltaire 75011 Paris France
Tel.:
(33)(0)1 49 23 72 80
Fax:
(33)(0)1 47 00 33 20
E-mail:
Postal address:
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75558 PARIS CEDEX 11 - FRANCE
Around 250 people
participate in the
production and
distribution of every
issue of
Prescrire
,
including:
- Around 150 members of the Prescrire team
- Around 100 external reviewers, experts in the
subjects discussed and practicing healthcare
professionals
For each issue, readers are provided with a
complete list of the contributors to that issue.
Prescrire
is a founder and member of
ISDB, a network of drug bulletins that are
independent of drug companies, which aims
to promote international exchange of quality
information on drugs and therapeutics.
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SPECIALEDITION
April 2014
N° 148
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