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- Page navigation anchor for RE: Primary care research: a continuing challenge for countries with limited resourcesRE: Primary care research: a continuing challenge for countries with limited resourcesAn interesting editorial by Dr Hobbs et al, raised important questions in multimorbidity research within UK primary care.1 Greece is a country with geographic, organizational and cultural barriers.At this point, we feel motivated to think over a Greek‘paradox’ consisting of good rates of primary care research capacity in an environment (country) with limited health system resources at a primary care level and intense economic problems and to support that primary care research is not a lost cause even in countries as Greece.2-3 One can add that under these conditions, issues of evidence based interventions and cost effective decision making process within primary care become more challenging4 and it is inexorably required to boost research towards excellence, so as to increase its ‘translational’ visibility at both national and global level.However, is publishing activity or international bridging enough to enhance wider recognition of primary care research in countries with limited resources as Greece, or for some reasons this remains an unmet expectation? To our knowledge, the answer is that it is not enough. To achieve this, primary care research has to empower its ‘negotiation’ capacity in the context of a health system and among the other disciplines through its impact in terms of outcomes. It is called to restore its ‘digni...Show MoreCompeting Interests: None declared.