Factors associated with professional satisfaction in primary care: Results from EUprimecare project

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  title={Factors associated with professional satisfaction in primary care: Results from EUprimecare project},
  author={Carlos S{\'a}nchez-Piedra and Lina Jaru{\vs}evi{\vc}ienė and Francisco Javier Prado-Galbarro and Ida Liseckienė and Fernando S{\'a}nchez-Alonso and Sonia Garcia-Perez and Antonio Sarr{\'i}a Santamera},
  journal={The European Journal of General Practice},
  year={2017},
  volume={23},
  pages={114 - 120},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3563508}
}
Elements related to the structure of primary care are associated with professional satisfaction at the individual level, and years of experience seems to be associated with higher professional satisfaction.
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