The phrase "assess causes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or analysis of reasons behind a particular event or situation.
Example: "In order to improve our processes, we need to assess causes of the recent failures in our system."
Alternatives: "evaluate reasons" or "analyze factors".
To assess causes for insufficient cholesterol-lowering response to pravastatin and plant stanol esters in children with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH).
Recent studies suggest that predation of macroinvertebrates by signal crayfish can affect the performance of freshwater biomonitoring tools used to assess causes of ecological degradation.
The number of parents agreeing to autopsy following stillbirth is declining, which has undermined clinicians' ability to assess causes of intrauterine death and can impact counselling regarding recurrence.
The numbers are comparable to those in Table 2, 3. Verbal autopsy seems to be a reliable and valid supplemental method to assess causes of death in the Golestan Cohort Study with comparable results in men and women and for patients from both rural and urban areas.
Other team members were also included in the coding process to assess causes of usability problems from participants' comments.
This study has limitations; as it was a retrospective, observational study, we were not able to assess causes for mortality and/or for elevated RDW.
This "dose response" – where higher levels of a drug or activity have greater effect than lower levels – is what researchers look for to assess cause and effect.
Thompson told the Daily Mail "While we cannot assess cause and effect from this study, these results suggest that maintaining a high level of sexual satisfaction may positively reinforce other psychological aspects of successful aging".
This had its downsides such as the lack of individual causes of death, which made it impossible for us to assess cause-specific survival.
Relative risk (RR) regression modeling was performed to assess cause-specific mortality associated with radiation-related exposure variables after adjustment for individual smoking and lifestyle factors.
Firstly, we could not assess cause-and-effect mechanisms underpinning IA and psychiatric co-morbidity because most studies included are cross-sectional in nature.
