The phrase "ascertaining outcomes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the process of determining or finding out results or consequences of a particular action or situation.
Example: "The research team focused on ascertaining outcomes from the latest clinical trials to improve patient care."
Alternatives: "determining results" or "establishing findings."
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).
As stated earlier, the key benefits of cohort studies using case register data are in ascertaining outcomes (e.g. persistence/recovery) in people with specific disorders, in contrast to conventional epidemiological cohort studies, which focus primarily on incidence of disorders in previously unaffected populations.
The members of iNeo have agreed that while the present initiative should focus on ascertaining outcomes prior to discharge from the NICU, the longer-term goal should be to assess and improve neurodevelopmental outcomes of VLBW and VPT infants at two to three years of age.
This study provides data from a suburban setting by documenting the epidemiology of burn injury and ascertaining outcome of management.
The extracted data included study design; participant characteristics; follow-up period; method of assessing resistant P. aeruginosa; association between resistance status and outcome; potential confounding variables adjusted for; method of ascertaining outcome; and statistical analyses.
Clinical telephone follow up was performed to ascertain outcomes.
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].
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.
