The phrase "alternative cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different reasons or explanations for a particular event or outcome, often in contexts like research, analysis, or argumentation.
Example: "While the primary cause of the issue was identified, it is important to consider the alternative cause that may have contributed to the situation."
Alternatives: "substitute reason" or "different explanation".
Caplin proposes a working definition: "no alternative cause of CKD diagnosed by medical professional, absence of diabetes, absence of hypertension".
Thus extinction was reversed by the concurrent presence of an alternative cause for the absence of the unconditioned stimulus.
Despite the original diagnosis of basilar migraine, the absence of aura was an uncommon feature [7], and poor responses to benchmark migraine treatments suggested an alternative cause.
In the absence of these features, an alternative cause of the cTn elevation and myocardial damage should be sought (Table 1).
An alternative cause for the discrepancies between the modelled data and what we observe is much more fundamental: that CDM does not exist, and the predictions of the standard model relating to it are false.
An alternative cause of genotype-dependent mortality invokes polymorphism for autosomal DMIs among the sibling F1 hybrids.
Malaria-diagnosed deaths were obtained from studies using recognised verbal autopsy methods, and include all acute febrile illness deaths minus those with an obvious alternative cause.
Furthermore we ruled out relevant CAD as an alternative cause for cTnI elevation in the majority of the cTnI-positive patients.
This high use of antimalarial drugs is partly due to the current treatment guidelines in Ghana that all children <5 years of age who report at the health facility with fever should be treated for malaria unless there is a clear alternative cause for the fever.
Children meeting the case definition for CM [1], [5] including P. falciparum asexual parasitaemia, a Blantyre coma score ≤2 with no improvement following correction of hypoglycemia, and no evidence of an alternative cause for coma including meningitis on examination of cerebrospinal fluid, were eligible for enrolment.
Incomplete lineage sorting [ 44, 90] may also be an alternative cause.
