The phrase "attributed to a protocol" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the source or origin of a particular action, behavior, or result that is linked to a specific protocol.
Example: "The errors in the system were attributed to a protocol that had not been updated."
Alternatives: "assigned to a protocol" or "linked to a protocol".
The discrepancies between our data and previous studies might be attributed to a different smoking protocol (two 2R1 cigarettes/day in the other studies) or to different equipment used to monitor pulmonary function.
We believe that, among others, a possible reason for the discordance in the results and interpretations of the effects of low-dose lead exposure on neonatal behavior can be attributed to a lack of a standardized analytical protocol.
The failure to design robust authentication protocols is commonly attributed to a lack of good design strategies, and to a lack of verification tools.
The protocols were effective because they resulted in significant reduction in costs, attributed to a shorter duration of therapy.
For randomised trials, an average treatment cost was attributed to the protocol, by taking into account the number of arms of the trial and randomisation ratio (see Table 1 as an example of how the TC difference was calculated).
The absence of an effect questioned whether this could be attributed to 1) protocol deviations in the actual implementation of the EAP by the GPs or to 2) the contrast between EAP and UC was not as large as assumed.
We consider that the absence of implant failure and relatively faster bone healing in the present study can be attributed to the protocol for fracture fixation; i.e., predetermined fracture stabilization with preservation of vascularity of the comminuted fragment and retention of unblocked dynamization during the DHS application.
This finding is attributed to the protocol design that allowed placebo-treated subjects who are diagnosed with disease progression to pursue active treatment with regorafenib open label.
Stephenson et al. has reported there was marked inter-laboratory variation in HI and neutralization test results, partly attributed to minor protocol differences among laboratories [ 30].
