For the minority of participants who recalled having received advice or referral, GPs and hospital doctors were the main sources of advice.
Among smokers, 76% had attempted to quit in the last 6 months, with the main sources of advice being friends and spouses.
Our report finds that half of young people rely on friends and family as their main source of financial advice, rather than independent financial advisers.
And Chester E. Finn Jr., an education official in the Reagan administration and now a prominent critic of public schools, called the site the main source of bad advice for schools, a "mishmash of pop-psychotherapeutics, feel-goodism, relativism and overblown multiculturalism, even more noteworthy for what's not there: history, civics, patriotism".
One measure of his ambition was the claim of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department (the administration's main source of legal advice), made in August 2002, that the president's authority as commander-in-chief was in effect unlimited in the conduct of a war.
The main source of referral advice is the Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer (NICE, 2005).
The treating gastroenterologist is often the main source of immunization advice in childhood and adolescent IBD, particularly if immunosuppressive therapy is commenced.
It is also worthy to note that the mothers of malnourished children reported the delivery room to be the main setting for nutritional counselling, whereas mothers of well nourished children reported the child health record books as their main source of nutritional advice.
But the commission is basically a rubber stamp for the autonomous National Police Agency, which nominates the members and is the main source of research and advice for commission members.
