Table 3 Perceived benefits of INTERMED services
Scenario | Type of users | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Physicians | Paramedics | "At risk" citizens/carers |
| Â | - Good alternative for avoiding frequent visits to the hospital. | Â | - Increased sense of security. |
Home care | - Long-term appreciation of patient's situation. | Â | - Avoidance of unnecessary visits to the hospital. |
| Â | - Useful in cases of emergency. | Â | Â |
| Â | - Sense of "team" work. | Â | Â |
Rural health center | - Time savings from patients' transportation to large hospitals. | Â | Â |
| Â | - Treatment of larger number of patients. | Â | Â |
| Â | - Better alternative than not seeing patient at all. | - Improvement of treatment. | Â |
Ambulance/emergency | Â | - Increased sense of security. | Â |
Navigation ship | - Better alternative than not monitoring/seeing patient at all. | - Improvement of treatment. - Increased sense of security. | Â |