The phrase "avoid being confused" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to take steps to prevent confusion in a particular situation or context.
Example: "To ensure clarity in your presentation, make sure to define your terms clearly to avoid being confused by the audience."
Alternatives: "prevent confusion" or "steer clear of confusion".
He changed his name for that movie to Graves, after his maternal grandfather, to avoid being confused with his older brother.
Anything to avoid being confused with what, to the naked eye, we so obviously are: a middle-class family whose needs would best be served by a minivan.
He will, of course, want to avoid being confused in any way with Baron Black (of Crossharbour), the former Telegraph group owner now residing in a Florida prison.
Reynolds, whose day job is washing dogs at a pet salon, uses the moniker Odd Ryan on his YouTube channel to avoid being confused with the famous Canadian actor.
To avoid being confused with a raised fist, the sock puppet must be held at chest level or be covered by an oversized foam finger, which, as previously mentioned, will be provided by owners free of charge.
If he is unwilling to check his customary yardstick at the gate, he cannot avoid being confused and disappointed by a story that is no story at all, but is a sad philosophy, a conjuration of mood, with a conclusion that simply shrugs its shoulders in the gloom and murmurs "Such is life". And which is the proper course?
The other comments included the question on educational status being inappropriate, request for larger print size and for the questionnaire to be sent soon after surgery to avoid surgical complications being confused with those related to chemo/radiotherapy.
Year upon year, north-siders, as Cub fans are known in Chicago both because of Wrigley Field's location and to avoid any chance of being confused with the sometimes insufferable White Sox fans of south Chicago.
President Obama may reportedly skip the visit to avoid covering his head and being confused as "a Muslim"!
Mrs. Sejdaras hated being confused, so she avoided taking pain medication until her pain grew unbearable.
Yet avoiding defeat should not be confused with winning.
