The phrase "alternative causes of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different factors or reasons that may lead to a particular outcome or effect.
Example: "In examining the patient's symptoms, we must consider the alternative causes of their condition, such as allergies or infections."
Alternatives: "other factors contributing to" or "different reasons for".
The treating physician considered alternative causes of SAP since the patient lacked signs of the common causative factors, including gallstones, alcohol abuse, and hyperlipidemia.
This finding suggests the potential for alternative causes of palatal petechiae or undetectable GAS in our patient population.
Other possible tests include a chest x-ray to look for alternative causes of chest discomfort, such as pneumonia or heart failure.
As many as 33% of patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis report persisting abdominal pain after cholecystectomy, suggesting alternative causes of these symptoms.
David Goulson, a professor at the University of Sussex, who was not involved in the new studies, said the research was convincing and ruled out likely alternative causes of bird decline.
In a scathing report, he concluded that investigators in the Willingham case had no scientific basis for claiming that the fire was arson, ignored evidence that contradicted their theory, had no comprehension of flashover and fire dynamics, relied on discredited folklore, and failed to eliminate potential accidental or alternative causes of the fire.
QUESTION FROM JACKSON, BIRMINGHAM, AL: I took a course during my graduate degree in engineering in which the first and second assignments involved reading an analyzing a report supporting climate change (by James Hansen actually) and another, oft cited, that attempts to propose alternative causes of climate change.
This study examines if alternative causes of an environmental problem affect individual statements of compensation demanded.
Clinicians should be vigilant for RFS, but must consider alternative causes of hypophosphataemia in critical illness.
Knowledge of alternative causes of retroperitoneal stranding and haemorrhage may also facilitate the diagnosis.
He then postulates alternative causes of climate change and analyses the trends for global temperatures, rainfall patterns, dynmaics of weather and sea level.
