[The system of information concerning pharmaceuticals and its role in efficient using of medicines: opinion of medical specialists].

The issues of efficient application of pharmaceuticals by national authorities and supranational institutions are considered as important ones. The WHO recommends implementing twelve key propositions enhancing efficient application of pharmaceuticals. The development of independent information system concerning pharmaceuticals. The WHO recognizes that absence of neatly organized information system concerning pharmaceuticals information is usually spreading through different channels by manufacturers of medicines. The WHO determines admissible sources of information concerning pharmaceuticals and also requirements to content of presented information. The article presents results of survey of opinions of medical professionals about information sources concerning pharmaceuticals regulated in the Russian Federation and the WHO and also about actual information system concerning pharmaceuticals in the Russian Federation and its role in efficient application of medicines.