The phrase "assign outcome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are designating or determining a result or consequence of a particular action or process.
Example: "The manager will assign outcome metrics to evaluate the success of the project."
Alternatives: "determine result" or "designate outcome".
The average follow-up time was 17 months and of those 21 it was only possible to clearly assign outcome in 14.
We excluded from the analysis children for whom data were insufficient to confidently assign outcome, or who had missing dates of birth.
The strengths of our study include the large number of children studied, detailed review of all clinical and laboratory data to assign outcome, validation of the model in an independent part of the dataset, and inclusion of all children presenting with suspected SBI in a cohort study design, which suggests the predictive value of our SBI score should be generalisable to other similar settings.
The WBCSD worked with more than 800 scientists to define these priorities, and assign outcome-based and measurable opportunities for engaging business to address these global challenges".
Ideally, one would randomly assign outcomes corresponding to each empirically or theoretically derived higher-order factor across samples to ascertain that their common variance is representative of the target construct.
To determine toolkit effectiveness, Lugtenberg et al's 20 method was adopted to assign outcomes from each toolkit to one of three categories: (1) not effective (if no significant effects were demonstrated); (2) partially effective (if half or less of the outcome measures showed significant effects) or (3) mostly effective (if more than half the outcome measures showed significant effects).
In cases when no definitive adjudication could be made on the basis of the above criteria, an adjudication committee consisting of clinicians with expertise in acute paediatric care assigned outcome by consensus, using all available information.
Patients who scored worse than the median - IQR (interquartile range) get assigned outcome 1 for that mental state outcome (e.g. speech and thought); those who scored median +/− IQR got assigned 2; and those who outperformed and scored over the median + IQR got outcome 3.
A potential criticism is the risk of incorporation bias, since clinicians are not blind to the admission clinical variables studied, which are likely to influence admission decisions; inclusion of clinical and laboratory data from the entire admission in assigning outcome is likely to only partly mitigate this bias.
For the permutation testing, the entire selection procedure was repeated using a dataset with randomly assigned outcomes.
The study pharmacist is the only member of the clinic team not blinded to the treatment arm and is not involved in assessing patients or assigning outcomes.
