The phrase "ascertaining studies" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to studies aimed at determining or establishing facts or knowledge.
Example: "The researchers focused on ascertaining studies that would provide clarity on the effects of climate change."
Alternatives: "determining studies" or "investigative studies".
While the Cochrane Collaboration has stated that quality scales and scale scores are inappropriate means of ascertaining study quality, 33 our results are relevant because many researchers continue to use the Jadad Scale and NOS in their systematic reviews.
We applied the nested case-control design to ascertain study subjects and two control groups from the healthy population, investigating the high-order interaction of risk factors on steatohepatitis.
This geographically based, systematically ascertained study of some 28 000 patient-years of essentially untreated multiple sclerosis completes our assessment of the relationship of relapses to hard long-term outcome measures.
Because smoking has been shown to influence NAA/Cr levels regardless of alcohol consumption [ 23- 25, 35], we ascertained study participants who were non-smokers to avoid any additional effect of smoking on this investigation.
The National Cancer Institute's Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) is conducting a multidisciplinary aetiologic study of familial testicular cancer aimed at ascertaining and studying families with TGCT.
When possible, sub-studies utilize commonly defined variables to assess patient demographic variables and comorbid conditions ascertained at studies' baseline.
However, as far as I can ascertain, no studies investigating learners' texts have adopted this model.
A review of the literature was conducted to ascertain published studies of evolution education in U.S. universities.
BO ascertained the studies and extracted the data.
Titles and abstracts were screened to ascertain whether studies met predefined selection criteria.
