The phrase "an overall priority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the most important focus or concern in a particular context or situation.
Example: "In our project planning, ensuring customer satisfaction is an overall priority that guides all our decisions."
Alternatives: "a primary focus" or "a main concern".
Some studies collate all group scores to give an overall priority of items from the different groups (Dening et al. 2012).
Importantly, ToxPi profiles provide a transparent visualization of the relative contribution of all information sources to an overall priority ranking.
Finally, using a 10-point scale they assigned an overall priority to the patient by answering the question: How would you prioritise the patient on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the highest?
An overall priority score per disorder was calculated by taking the mean of the three criterion-based intermediate scores (no weighing of criteria was followed).
Second, the "overall score" was entered also using a five-point Likert scale where one represented a low overall priority and five represented a high overall priority.
Alternatively, the final grouping of subnational areas in terms of their priority could be done using an overall woodfuel priority index (O.R. Masera, R. Drigo and M.A. Trossero, in preparation) that reflects the key aspects of the areas of analysis in terms of both woodfuel demand and supply.
The findings show acceptable validity and reliability for prioritisation instruments in determining the overall priority of a patient awaiting surgery with a high degree of agreement between evaluators.
The overall priority of an innovation per stakeholder group is the weighted sum of the relative preferences for the innovation according to each decision criterion.
The purpose of risk analysis is to determine the overall priority of a hazard, so that further actions can be taken to reduce and mitigate the most critical ones where resources are limited.
For the GPs in our study, estimated severity had a slightly smaller effect on overall priority than cost-effectiveness, and for the nurses severity influenced overall priority much more than the other two criteria.
The choice of process configuration and engineering design is also closely linked with the selection of the most suitable organism for a particular design or for whether overall priority is given to energy generation, waste disposal or some other objective.
