23 In describing preferences for the presentation of evidence, primary care physicians expressed the need for an explicit statement when evidence was absent and the need for clinical expertise to bridge the gap.
When Mr. Piro asked why, in view of his self-described preference for living simply, he had so many extravagant palaces, "Hussein stated that the palaces belonged to the nation and not to one person".
He lives in a book-lined apartment on one of downtown Manhattan's loveliest streets, but has often described his preference for a "rotating" approach to writing, involving stints at several local cafes, in an effort to recreate the ambience of a newsroom.
He described a preference for an aristocracy over monarchic or democratic rule.
Early descriptions of its habitat found it in "rather moist situations" and in "damp woods", and David Arora has more recently described its preference for the humid forests of the southern Appalachians.
One mother aptly described her preference for 'human' sources of information, rather than literature, guidelines and the internet.
All respondents described a preference for information to be presented concisely, with a brief description of the medicine, benefits, dosage, contraindications/cautions and a fully referenced research summary.
Participants described how preference for informal health providers in rural communities (such as traditional healers, traditional birth attendants, and chemists or drug shops) leads to low demand for formal PHC services.
A total of 17 articles described a preference for traditional remedies in cases where the illness was believed to be caused by spirits or witchcraft, when complications occurred, or as a means of removing the root cause prior to supportive care in hospital.
There were mixed feelings about the involvement of an external organisation to coordinate the survey, possibly on a national basis; staff described a preference for using surveys as part of their own internal quality improvement process, and were resistant to the idea of surveys being used as an "external stick" (Hospital B) to raise performance, or being linked to financial incentives.
