Job stress and job satisfaction of physicians, radiographers, nurses and physicists working in radiotherapy: a multicenter analysis by the DEGRO Quality of Life Work Group.

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Published in Radiat Oncol on February 06, 2009

Authors

Susanne Sehlen1, Dirk Vordermark, Christof Schäfer, Peter Herschbach, Anja Bayerl, Steffi Pigorsch, Jutta Rittweger, Claudia Dormin, Tobias Bölling, Hans Joachim Wypior, Franz Zehentmayr, Wolfgang Schulze, Hans Geinitz, DEGRO Quality of Life Work Group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, University Munich, Munich, Germany. susanne.sehlen@med.uni-muenchen.de

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