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Received: 19 October 2017

Accepted: 19 February 2018

First Online: 7 March 2018

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: Eva Anskär is a District nurse at Mantorp Primary Health Care center near Linköping in Sweden. She became a PhD student in June 2015 at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University. She is interested in the primary care organization and her field of research concerns time utilization among primary care professions.Malou Lindberg is an Associate Professor in general practice at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden. She works as a manager at 1177 Medical Advisory Service, Region Östergötland, Sweden. She has a commitment within telenursing, health promotion and implementation science.Magnus Falk is an associate Professor in general practice, and works as general practitioner at Kärna Primary Health Care Centre in Linköping, Sweden, and as a university lecturer at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University. He has a broad commitment within several aspects of primary health care research, but has is main field of research concerns prevention, risk assessment and early detection of skin cancer, from a primary care perspective.Agneta Andersson is an Associate Professor of Evaluation and health economics at Linköping University, Sweden. She received a PhD degree on Health and society in 2002 at the Department of health and society at Linköping University. She is interested in health economics, implementation science and is currently working with research and development at Region Östergötland, Sweden.

: This study was approved by the Ethics Review Board in Linköping, Sweden (D.nr. 2014/81–31). Participants received information about the study verbally at a staff meeting and also by written information at the start of the data collection. Participants were informed that the study was voluntary, that they could drop out of the study without explanation at any time, and that confidentiality was guaranteed. Participants agreed to participate by responding to the questionnaire and time study. All data material was stored in a database in the Östergötland Region with a high level of security.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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