(GP 11) Many of the GPs stated that communication skills and problem solving skills, which are seen as crucial skills for GPs, were perceived to be of less importance for specialists who prioritised technical-oriented skills.
These instances reflect a tendency for engineering, as presently taught and practised, to prioritise technical ingenuity over helping people.
Extrapolating from this finding, the key priority for any policy framework, planning or implementation strategy in CBR should be to prioritise technical, organisational, administrative, and personnel management, including strategic leadership issues.
Participants with more years of experience believed in learning from practice, observing senior colleagues, and developing expert intuition, more so than 'reading about things' as EBM could 'never capture the whole story.' The technological advances in radiology placed demands on participants to prioritise their technical competence and knowledge of anatomy and pathology.
The study also elicited a degree of consensus that the most desirable secondary benefits that could be built-in to developments would be ecological ones – prioritised over social, economic and technical benefits.
Technical biomedical competence was prioritised over caregiving and empathy for patients both in medical training and in clinical practice.
Similarly, in the workflow and workload themes, how work was prioritised and organised using both social and technical elements to form protocols was the common theme.
A sub-county project steering committee prioritised 12 worst hit villages, before Amref's technical staff and district water authorities chose the lucky eight.
The list of significantly (p < 0.05) changing proteins was triaged further by manual inspection of spectra and data, proteins showing consistent changes across patients and low variation in the technical replicates of the pooled standards were prioritised.
This approach prioritised rapid results over long-term objectives, based upon technical criteria and side-lining the notions of participatory decision-making and community-based approaches to health [ 26].
Informatics training for staff was prioritised, in-house expertise in information technology was high, and technical know-how circulated informally among staff.
