Values and preferences: in case of uncertainty or large variability, the level of evidence of the recommendation is probably weak, and values and preferences must be more clearly obtained from the affected persons (patient, physician and decision-maker).
While risks of surgical and anaesthetic procedures are routinely discussed preoperatively in the process of obtaining informed consent, the patients' preferences in case of unfavourable ICU outcomes are rarely discussed and most critically ill patients do not have advance directives.
This process will give us a set of chosen rules according to decision makers' preferences, in case of satisfaction we obtain the final set of relevant rules, if not, we change a set of thresholds and parameters to get the appropriate results.
The final binding preference of each TF is made by taking a vote among these six binding preferences, and again in case of a tie random binding preference is assigned.
This involved an analysis of stakeholder opinions regarding different promising measures in terms of stakeholder preferences and the in case of (conflicting) differences in preferences among stakeholders, i.e. obstructing implementation, looking for way's to bridge these differences. .
This is evident from Sen's (1970) demonstration that these two conditions conflict with the idea that for each person there is a personal domain of states of affairs, within which his preferences must prevail in case of conflict with others'.
[ 7, 13] But an interesting finding in our study was that the General Practitioner was a close second preference for initial consultation in case of symptoms suggestive of psychiatric disorder.
To set an order of preference, in case a particular font is not on a person's computer, use commas to separate font names.
Two set of experts composed of 6 neurologists and 7 hematologists, representing the three health subsectors from Argentina (public, worker´s unions health care, and private), were consulted about clinical characteristics of patients with AF, treatment patterns, preferences for treatment change in case of bleeding events and resource utilization.
