Guidelines that were not regarded as professionally sound, logical and relevant or in keeping with one’s own clinical experiences or feelings were more difficult to follow.

Patients and their caregivers experience less anxiety and worry. Healthcare personnel also had positive experiences with the telemedicine service.

Only one guideline detailed a practical and systematic set-up of instrument tables.

The organisational form results in RNs working in greater isolation, and this may mean that their professional competence stagnates. The parents become the experts on the child – not the RNs.

More and more studies are examining systems for early detection of clinical deterioration in non-hospital settings, but few have focused on older people and primary care.

Body temperature was measured differently and the routines were not the same. Provision should be made for a practice ensuring that staff have the necessary equipment and time to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia.

Mothers who engaged with the ‘New families’ home visit programme, had more frequent contact with child health centres. But more than a third of all the mothers reported that they had received inadequate information from public authorities about the child health centre’s services.