The phrase "a phased design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a design approach that is implemented in stages or phases, often in project management or product development contexts.
Example: "The team decided to adopt a phased design to ensure that each stage of the project was thoroughly evaluated before moving on to the next."
Alternatives: "a staged design" or "a stepwise design".
In the study, a phased design was used to overcome the operationalization problem.
The recommendations include a phased design guided densification model, socially inclusive through the incorporation of the existing dwellership and their participation.
51 Introducing the intervention and disseminating information to a population of 110,000 could only be performed gradually, hence a phased design.
The majority of studies were described as pre/post design (n = 13) and the remaining studies used a phased design (n = 4), observational design (n = 1), time series cohort (n = 1) or randomised controlled trial (n = 1).
Using a phased study design, variant-by-multivitamin interactions were tested, and associations between variants and ovarian carcinoma were reported stratified by multivitamin supplement use.
All participants successfully completed an initial treatment phase and then entered a phase designed to transfer treatment gains; 9/21 failed to complete this latter phase.
WAICENT also initiated a phased implementation plan designed to ensure an appropriate language balance.
The study employed a two-phase design, with a more comprehensive assessment given to a subsample (n = 2,034) at baseline ('prevalence assessment') stratified by age and cognitive function (biased toward those older and those with worse cognitive function).
They used a 2-phase design with a training set of 157 high-risk patients and a validation set of 57 high-risk patients.
23 The exploratory sequential design is a two-phase design that starts with an initial qualitative phase, followed by a quantitative phase.
Such a differentiation between effects can be enabled in a two-phase design.
