The most frequently reported barriers to telehealth were: Technical problems, believing telehealth to be unnecessary, and a preference for in-person care.
As the case may be, allow them the freedom to take greater responsibility over choices and preferences without unnecessary interference.
We might as well call sex -- also now technically unnecessary -- a mere "recreational preference".
Given that no individual would know that her treatment had been unnecessary, women expressed an overwhelming preference to err on the side of caution.
We developed a novel dual visual analog scale to describe the relationship between regret associated with "omissions" (e.g. failure to treat) vs. "commissions" (e.g. treating unnecessary) and decision maker's preferences as expressed in terms of threshold probability.
Justice Stevens, joined by Burger, Stewart and Rehnquist, concurring in part and dissenting in part in the judgment, found it unnecessary to determine whether a racial preference was ever allowed under the Constitution.
Failure to tailor care as much as possible to patients' needs and preferences may lead to (unnecessary) dissatisfaction and distress among patients.
This lack of patient input into transplantation policy, combined with a lack of evidence around the nature of patient preferences, has added potentially unnecessary controversy to the formulation of policy in this area [ 7- 10].
Female education, anti-discrimination suits and equal-rights rulings made son preference seem old-fashioned and unnecessary.
The experience is universal that it makes declarations of gender preference, of gay or straight, unnecessary, perhaps even laughable.
To avoid unnecessary complexity, the six sequences in the preference section were linked to the six combinations of risk presentation in Card 1.
