Knowledge transfer: what drug information would specialist doctors need to support their clinical practice? Results of a survey and of three focus groups in Italy

Table 2 Respondents’ scores on importance of information channels (scale: 1–10; n = 200)

	Average score	% scoring at least 8/10
Pharmaceutical sales representatives	8.5	92 %
Sponsored meetings - congresses	7.8	73 %
Sponsored CME courses	7.5	68 %
E-mail from drug companies	7.4	64 %
Web-calls with pharmaceutical sales representative	7.4	58 %
E-mail from journal	7.3	59 %
Phone calls from pharmaceutical sales representative	6.5	30 %

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