Information services departments

W. C. Dorman, IS-T-510 National Technical Information Service, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1972. 

Finally, since some of the questions posed to information services departments are of medicolegal importance, for example, prescribing advice or adverse event reporting and/or management and liability, information scientists will normally seek the support or advice of the company physician or pharmacist and even the legal department, in providing a response. The company physician or pharmacist should always be prepared to respond personally to the health service professional who is making... 

It is mandatory that pharmaceutical companies should have a scientific service which is responsible for information about medicines that they market. Council Directive 92/28/EEC (the advertising directive) states this clearly. Prescribers and qualified suppliers of medicines must have access to neutral and objective information about products that are available and companies have accepted that an information service department is a necessary and responsible facility. These are usually staffed and managed by qualified pharmacists, information scientists and nurses and, in general, should form part of the company s medical department so that impartial advice is seen to be provided. Such a service can only be... 

A prototype pharmacophoric pattern matching system has been installed in the Research Information Services Department, Pfizer Central Research (U.K.), the implementation being in FORTRAN 77 on a VAX 8600 running under VMS. ... 

National Technical Information Service Department of Commerce Springfield, VA 22161. 

Finnish Maritime Administration (FMA). (2003). Statistics of ships visited Finnish Ports in foreign traffic, winter 2002-2003. Information service department. 

Lucas84] Lucas H "Organisational Power and the Information Services Department." in Communications of the ACM. Vol 27 No 1, January, 1984... 

Mecklenburg, M. F., Albrecht, P., and Evans, B., Screeiung of Structural Adhesives for Application to Steel Bridges, Interim report, NTIS No. PB 86 142 601, available from National Technical Information Service, Department of Civil Engineering, Uiriversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1985. 

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