The phrase "a specified cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a particular reason or justification for an action or event.
Example: "The committee made their decision based on a specified cause that was outlined in the report."
Alternatives: "a defined reason" or "a particular cause".
A death is assigned a specified cause based on the congruence of at least two or more physicians.
Average annual cause-specific death rates were calculated by the total number of deaths from a specified cause per 100,000 person-years, for different sex and age groups.
Of VE cases with a specified cause, which should have been reported to public health authorities according to the case definitions in use at the time, a significant difference was found in the distribution of VE cases by causative agent between laboratory confirmations and events (Fisher exact test, p<0.001).
Proportionate mortality studies, which compare the percentage of all deaths from a specified cause between an exposed group of interest and an unexposed or general population group, can give rise to misleading conclusions about risk associations if they are used to compare groups with different distributions of causes of death unrelated to the exposure under study.
We found the risk of feelings of guilt (without a specified cause) to be more than six times higher among suicide-bereaved parents, and the risk of fear of next-of-kin's death to be about four times higher (table 4).
Finally, the substantial difference in the proportion of deaths with insufficient VA data to attribute a specified cause (categorised as 'indeterminate' and 'other unspecified' in table 3) suggests that observed differences in cause distribution may also relate to underlying differences in VA data completeness.
Using models with a single lag structure, the 95% confidence interval excluded 1, except for the associations between PM2.5 and migraine and headache of specified cause and the association between nitrogen dioxide and headache of specified cause (Table 4).
aDeaths with any mention of specified cause on the1994 1998 Multiple Cause of Death files.
bDeaths with any mention of specified cause on the 1999 2000 Multiple Cause of Death files.
In the total population of 5.37 million people, there was an average of 2.5 hospital admissions daily for headache, half of which had no specified cause and one-third of which were for migraine.
The largest risk estimate was 1.17 for the relation between ozone and migraine headache, and the second-largest was 1.13 for the relation between nitrogen dioxide and headache of specified cause.
