The phrase "ascertained death" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to legal, medical, or formal discussions about the confirmation of someone's death.
Example: "The coroner issued a report confirming the ascertained death of the individual after a thorough investigation."
Alternatives: "confirmed death" or "established death".
This effect can be attributed to an increased number of ascertained deaths in the setting of an unchanged number of patients at risk after tracing (Table 2).
The GEMS team ascertained deaths among children enrolled in the case/control study during the enrollment encounter and at the 60-day follow-up visit.
All cohorts ascertained deaths by region, state, or country wide registries with a coverage of ≥98.5% and obtained information about the underlying cause of death for at least 97.6% of the deceased.
The National Death Index is checked annually to ascertain deaths.
Linkage to a local health insurance database has become an important supplementary way of ascertaining deaths.
Although migration could not be determined, both the HIV/AIDS and cancer registries used the National Death Index to ascertain deaths, including those occurring outside the registration areas.
The National Death Index has been shown to be an accurate method of ascertaining deaths in observational studies, having high sensitivity (96%) and specificity (100%) (21).
28 29 Children with measles were followed to ascertain deaths in the acute phase defined as within one month (31 days) of the onset of rash.
To ascertain deaths from Type 2 diabetes (ICD code 250), the above 115 asymptomatic Type 2 diabetes patients were followed until Dec 1997.
NSW Registry of Births, Death and Marriages (RBDM) death registration (fact-of-death) data will be used to ascertain deaths following hospitalisation and for censoring in person-time analyses.
