On 24 Jan 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: ... > Do you think that drug manufacturers would be willing to help us with > the raw data?
Elizabeth, I think this is called the PDR. The publisher does derive revenue from the publication of the PDR and I am not sure they will be interested in putting that revenue stream at risk. > That is, if we explain to them the project and it's goals and just > simply ask, "May we please have the raw prescribing information in an > ASCII format?" that they may oblidge? Ask and you shall receive. There is no harm in trying but I think the PDR publisher already came up with the same idea. Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org (Hosting OIO Library #1 and OSHCA Mirror #1)
