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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ascertains cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is determining or identifying the reason behind an event or situation.
Example: "The investigation ascertains cause to understand why the accident occurred."
Alternatives: "determines reason" or "establishes cause".
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The Vadu community has been under health and demographic surveillance (HDSS) since 2002 wherein a biannual household census enumerates all births, deaths, and migrations and ascertains cause of death.
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Unlike medical experts, these scientists specialize in the study of networks themselves — anything ranging from neighborhoods linked via the power grid to teenagers linked on Facebook — and they are familiar with the difficulty of ascertaining cause and effect in such complex constructs.
They were eventually able to ascertain cause of death for 98% of deceased survey respondents.
The verbal autopsy (VA) is a tool designed to ascertain cause of death in such settings.
Two independent physicians ascertained cause of death.
Ascertaining cause and effect is however more difficult.
It is notoriously difficult to ascertain cause from correlational results.
VAs were carried out to ascertain cause of death.
Verbal postmortems (VPMs) to ascertain cause of death were implemented for all infant deaths from June 2003.
Additionally, the NUHDSS integrates the Verbal Autopsy (VA) process for ascertaining cause of death.
We could not ascertain cause of death in 5 of 145 (3%) subjects (3 with major amputations and 2 control subjects).
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