The phrase "assigned causes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where specific reasons or factors have been designated or attributed to a particular outcome or event.
Example: "In the study, the researchers identified several assigned causes for the increase in pollution levels in the area."
Alternatives: "designated reasons" or "attributed factors".
For the out-of-hospital deceased patients, the assigned causes of death by the GPs were obtained from the medical records of the GPs.
At the time of analysis, physician reviewers had assigned causes of death for 341 of the completed verbal autopsies.
The assigned causes of death were classified into six broad groups: infectious and parasitic diseases, cancers, other non-communicable diseases, neonatal, maternal, and external causes.
If the two assigned causes of death are discordant, a third physician reviewer assesses all the evidence, including the two previous reviews, and assigns a cause of death.
Assigned causes of death were classified into six broad groups: infectious and parasitic diseases; cancers; other non-communicable diseases; neonatal; maternal; and external causes.
Local physicians have assigned causes of death to the VA material, which has also more recently been processed retrospectively using the InterVA-4 probabilistic model (version 4.02) (4.02
The assessment of VA, lens examination and assigned cause of blindness were compared to ensure a high degree of consistency between teams.
If the assigned cause of death for the two physicians was inconsistent it was reviewed by the third physician.
20 Records were assigned cause of death in three-digit International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision (ICD-10).
These were processed by the InterVA-4 model which assigned cause(s) of death to all except 35 cases (8.0%) which were completely indeterminate.
We then repeated the procedure, but limited the analysis to subjects for which the assigned cause of death was cancer (n = 426), cardiovascular disease (n = 467), or other non-accidental causes of death (n = 586).
