The phrase "ascertain delayed" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to attempt to express the idea of determining or finding out about a delay, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "We need to ascertain the reason for the delayed shipment."
Alternatives: "determine the delay" or "find out about the delay."
To better ascertain delay in appropriate antifungal therapy, a second model was constructed that included fluconazole (versus other antifungal agents) in addition to the variables above.
To ascertain whether the delayed S-phase progression was attributable to a late entry into S phase and/or a reduced rate of DNA synthesis, we measured the budding index of these cells.
However, we were not able to ascertain the reason of delayed hospitalization among adults using available data.
In order to ascertain the optimal delay time to assess the individual hepatobiliary enhancement patterns of the various liver lesions, 5-, 10- and 20-min hepatobiliary series were evaluated consecutively.
In addressing this problem, it may be helpful for instance to ascertain if the delay for an undernourished child is attributable to parental decision and/or an advice from health workers.
We therefore aimed to use a face to face questionnaire survey study to ascertain the general public's awareness of delayed antibiotics, the acceptability of delayed antibiotic prescriptions for infections, and whether they had been offered a delayed antibiotic, and if so, the indication and acceptability.
The scores of the STAT predict the actions that the public would take if stroke symptoms occur, but cannot specifically ascertain the pre-hospital delay in behavioral intention.
It would be of interest to ascertain whether there are delay-dependent differences in familiarity-based activity to determine whether consolidation processes in the MTL are limited to recollective recognition or occur for all new memories.
To understand why these patients took longer to present we could explore individual cases, most appropriately using a qualitative approach, to ascertain the causes of delay in presentation whereby the focus is on the event, or context, as opposed to the individual.
In addition, parents and the health workers were not interviewed to ascertain possible reasons for delays or default such as illness of the mother/child and other unavoidable constraints as well as the potential contribution of service-related factors such as rescheduling due to vaccine shortage, waiting time and convenience of visits.
