The phrase "ascertain outcomes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of determining or finding out the results of a particular situation or analysis.
Example: "The research team aims to ascertain outcomes from the latest clinical trials to inform future studies."
Alternatives: "determine results" or "establish findings."
Assessment of study design and conduct should include evaluation of internal validity, methods used to ascertain outcomes and other policies and procedures for data collection, as well as the integrity of case report form (CRF) adjudication.
Clinical telephone follow up was performed to ascertain outcomes.
Thus, while inability to ascertain outcomes among patients lost to follow-up could bias mortality estimates in both the ART-LINC and the ART-CC data, higher rates of losses to follow-up in the ART-LINC patients creates the possibility that deaths may have been underestimated to a greater degree in this group.
However, tracing methods may ascertain outcomes differently.
(Readers will note the absence of contemporary approaches to ascertain outcomes and satisfaction.
A follow-up was performed to ascertain outcomes, ie, episodes of hemorrhage, thrombotic events, and mortality.
The use of separate headache diaries for each phenotype allowed patient and investigators to ascertain outcome for each phenotype.
In fact, prior to the studies described below, elderly patients were either excluded from randomized trials or were recruited in too few numbers to ascertain outcome data.
Studies that have ascertained outcomes among patients lost to care have reported that up to a third of patients who failed to initiate ART had died [7], [8], [25].
This study has several strengths that include its prospective design, collection of data on potential confounders, and rigorous methods for ascertaining outcomes.
We next compared the early ART program outcomes of patients with Xpert-positive and Xpert-negative tuberculosis, ascertaining outcomes after 30 and 90 days from the time of program enrollment when the tuberculosis screening was done (Table 4).
