Q-statements (listed in order of greatest consensus to least consensus) | Averaged participant agreement score | Agreement scores of identified respondent types | ||
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"Utilize" (5 loaders, 4 definers) | "Develop" (6 loaders, 3 definers) | "Invest" (4 loaders, 2 definers) | ||
It is NOT necessary for patients to be seen by physicians in the field, but rather patients should be brought immediately to an emergency department for care. | -2.0 | -2 | -1 | -3 |
Health management training for health care leaders is essential for the improvement of emergency medical services. | -0.1 | -1 | -1 | -2 |
The public overuses ambulance services because there is no charge for the use of these services. | 0.6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
The first priority for the development of emergency medicine should be to improve the organization of emergency services. | 0.4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Patients arriving to the emergency facility should be taken, according to their illness, directly to a specific specialty department. | -0.4 | -1 | -1 | -1 |
Protocols should be developed to standardize the treatment of patients throughout Serbia. | 1.2 | 0 | 3 | -1 |
Emergency medicine should be taught as a required course during the last year of medical school. | 0.8 | -2 | 2 | 0 |
Emergency medicine in Serbia would function better if it were financed by the federal budget rather than by the social health insurance fund. | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | -1 |
Emergency medicine should be a separate specialty in which physicians are trained to exclusively practice emergency medicine. | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | -2 |
Primary health care providers in the health houses are sufficiently trained in the triage of emergent and non-emergent patients. | -1.8 | -1 | -2 | -3 |
All institutions that provide emergency medical services should be open 24 hours a day. | 1.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
A priority in the development of emergency medicine is to increase the number of appropriately equipped ambulances. | -0.6 | -2 | -3 | 1 |
There should be national guidelines to determine which illnesses/injuries should be treated at each type of health care facility. | 0.2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Much of the burden on emergency health care providers is due to the time spent caring for non-emergent patients. | 1.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Continuing medical education should be required by law of all physicians working in emergency medicine. | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
There is poor coordination among the various specialties that provide emergency medical services. | -0.3 | -1 | 1 | -1 |
The public should be better educated about the level of care that each health care institution provides in order to properly use the available health care services. | 0.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
The medical school is currently playing a sufficient role in the development of emergency medicine in Serbia. | -1.6 | -3 | -1 | -1 |
There is poor cooperation between the emergency centers, clinical-hospital centers, pre-hospital emergency services, and health houses. | 0.6 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Physicians working in emergency medicine in Serbia need greater expertise and technical skills to provide an appropriate level of care. | 0.8 | -2 | 3 | 3 |
The problems in emergency medicine would be solved if there were money and equipment with which to work. | 0.4 | 2 | -2 | 2 |
There is an appropriate balance of theoretical and practical training for physicians in emergency medicine. | -2.0 | -3 | -3 | -2 |
Radio communication does not function effectively between the ambulances and the medical institutions. | -0.1 | 0 | -2 | 2 |