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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2276</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>ANALYZING MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES ROLE IN PRESCRIPTION WRITING HABIT OF THE PHYSICIANS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumari</surname><given-names>Preeti</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Pise</surname><given-names>Ajay</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Udupa</surname><given-names>N.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>14</fpage><lpage>15</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Study was designed to identify the role of medical representatives in prescription writing habit of the physicians. Identifying the source of information of ADR and to identify the role of hospital pharmacy in the prescription writing habit were secondary objectives of the study. This study is important for Medical Representatives because it gives them the knowledge bout the factors which influences the prescription writing habit. This study mainly focuses on analysis of physicians__ampersandsignrsquo; prescription writing behaviour. This analysis would help companies to understand physicians__ampersandsignrsquo; mindset and to target company__ampersandsignrsquo;s marketing efforts precisely. A questionnaire designed with open and close ended questions to collect information against the framed objectives. A market research software (statistics calculator) was used to determine sample size from the population. Convenient sampling process was followed. Government hospitals, private hospitals, private clinics, medical college from , Udupi, Mangalore and nearby area. Collected data was analyzed by using percentage analysis method to derive results.&#13;
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