The phrase "ascertain the preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to determine or find out someone's choice or liking regarding a particular matter.
Example: "Before making a decision, we should ascertain the preference of all team members to ensure everyone is on board."
Alternatives: "determine the preference" or "identify the preference."
A larger and wider representative population-based sample will also be presented with the DCE using a web-based survey format to ascertain the preferences of the general public.
A qualitative study conducted to ascertain the preferences of (12) stroke patients' and their family members about consent in emergency research reported all but one were happy for the doctor to make the decision about enrolment to the trial in the absence of a surrogate to provide informed consent[ 39].
In the second phase, Trial of Improved Practices (TIPs) methodology was used to ascertain the acceptability and preference for various possible modes of chlorhexidine delivery for cord care among the mothers/caretakers and health professionals.
The purpose of this questionnaire was to ascertain the patient's preferences for active interventions such as CPR together with MV, future chemotherapy, antibiotics for future infective complications, anticoagulants for future thromboembolic complications, blood transfusions for anemia and/or hemorrhage, feeding tubes and artificial hydration.
In order to reduce the uncertainty in AHP criteria weighting, an OAT-based sensitivity analysis was utilized to help the decision makers ascertain the preferences of the criteria weights.
In addition, the warden will ascertain the inmate's religious preference.
Finally, one-third of respondents agreed that their choice of journal for submission would be affected by whether or not CONSORT-NPT was mentioned in the instructions for authors section of the journal (we did not ascertain the direction of this preference).
In order to develop meaningful and beneficial educational methods, we first sought to ascertain the education needs and preferences of the local practicing pediatricians and pediatric residents in our community with the assumption that these findings can help inform and shape our future efforts and also inform others interested in addressing this educational need.
To ascertain the relationship between questionnaire responses and preference for oral therapy (as "willingness to switch" and "permanently switching") we performed bivariate and multivariate analyses.
The attributes can then be compared to one another to ascertain the "relative importance" or the percentage of total variance in preferences that each attribute explains.
