Wholly self-financed through subscriptions,
Prescrire
publishes its accounts annually
Association Mieux Prescrire, a non-profit continuing education
organisation, enjoys complete financial independence.
Prescrire
accepts no advertising, grants or outside support of any kind,
and publishes its financial statement every year.
Financing
Association Mieux Prescrire is a
non-profit organisation for the continu-
ing education of healthcare profes-
sionals, under the French law of 1901.
This structure reflects the intention to
provide a service to healthcare profes-
sionals, and not become a commercial
publisher.
Self-supporting
Prescrire
is wholly self-supporting
through subscriptions, without any
advertising revenue or other outside
support of any kind.
Prescrire
does
not produce “sponsored” supplements,
and turns down any disguised gifts
such as subscriptions for healthcare
practitioners paid for by pharma-
ceutical companies. This is, practically
speaking, the only way to speak with
total freedom about the value of diag-
nostic and therapeutic tools, as well as
the policies of the Ministry of Health,
regulatory agencies, the health insur-
ance system, or medical and pharma-
ceutical professional groups.
Independent from industrial
interests
In France and elsewhere, almost all
medical and pharmaceutical publi-
cations are largely financed through
advertising, and may become totally
dependent on advertising revenue.
The presence of advertising inserts
or “advertorials”, of pharmaceutical
industry press releases or transcripts
of press conferences take up a greater
or a lesser proportion of space in these
publications. All of this creates a great
deal of confusion and compromise,
which
Prescrire
has decided to avoid
altogether.
A strict policy on “reprints”
Prescrire
produces very few reprints
and is careful not to depend on them
financially. Only the cost of printing and
a reasonable copyright fee are charged.
Reprints are marked “Reproduced with
permission from Prescrire and without
financial compensation”.
Transparency of financial
statements
Prescrire
publishes its annual finan-
cial report every year in its March issue,
with the report in English published
every June.
Subscribers can
download any of
the thousands
of detailed
reviews
produced
by
Prescrire’s
multidisciplinary
team of healthcare
professionals,
and all including
complete notes
and references.
All are
available
instantly
, via an
online table of
contents going
back to 1992,
or via a search
function.
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