'tool of preference' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the tool or toolset that someone prefers to use. For example, "My tool of preference is a hammer and nails for most woodworking projects."
Each poodle groomer has a unique style, a tool kit of preferences and tricks to accentuate a dog's attributes or disguise its shortcomings.
An increasingly used tool for measuring strength of preference for health care is the discrete choice experiment (DCE) [ 15- 18].
Measuring strength of preference is a powerful tool in welfare research.
The STAR study outcomes research evaluation comprised the following tools: the Preference of Medicine (POM) questionnaire, the Quality of Life Scale (QLS), the Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory – European version (CSSRI-EU), EuroQoL-5D (EQ-5D), Impact of Weight on Quality of Life (IWQoL-Lite), and the Arizona Sexual Experience Scale ASEXX).
The availability of such tools may enable more accurate assessment of the effects of preference matching on treatment outcomes.
Mapping of preference based measures using non-preference based tools is a growing area of study [ 13].
Many preference elicitation tools, and studies employing them, are concerned with the psychology of preference elicitation[ 29, 30] and are therefore less concerned with selection bias than Internet-based epidemiological[ 31, 32], behavioural[ 33, 34] or therapeutic studies[ 35, 36].
Thus, RSS feeds appear as monitoring tool of current events according to users preferences.
As with any patient decision aid or empowerment tool, documenting the preference of the patient is only meaningful and useful to the extent that the documented preferences are known and ultimately acted upon by those providing care.
