The phrase "adjudicating cause" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in legal or formal contexts where a decision or judgment is being made regarding a specific reason or case.
Example: "The court is responsible for adjudicating cause in matters of dispute between the parties involved."
Alternatives: "determining the reason" or "resolving the issue".
The test showed 93.7% agreement with blood culture in a cohort of 350 patients with a sepsis alert and identified an independently adjudicated cause of the sepsis alert more often than all of the microbiological testing combined (169 aetiological determinations versus 132).
18 Where adjudicated cause of death was available, 70% of deaths following a sepsis event were attributed to a range of other conditions, including cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
Adjudicated cause of death was available for 84.6% of sepsis and 73.5% of non-sepsis deaths; the most common adjudicated causes of death among individuals with sepsis were infection, lung disease and cancer (table 4).
Two cardiologists, unaware of patients' hospital course, adjudicated causes of death as cardiovascular, non-cardiovascular, or unknown.
Multivariable analysis of admission predictors (Table 3) and delayed complications confirms (Table 4) our adjudicated causes of death.
Adjudicated causes of death were determined to be ASCVD if either the immediate or underlying cause of death was related to ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, or peripheral vascular disease, including abdominal aortic aneurysm and ischemic bowel disease.
Using a cohort study design, we measured plasma TnI levels with routine pre-dialysis monthly blood tests, including CRP, and tracked all patient outcomes, specifically adjudicating the cause of all deaths as cardiac or non-cardiac.
An independent committee blinded to treatment assignment adjudicated each cause of death.
Although different mechanisms could overlap in the same patient, only the adjudicated primary cause of death was considered.
