The phrase "avoid potential confounding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to research, statistics, or any situation where you want to minimize the influence of extraneous variables on the results.
Example: "To ensure the validity of our findings, we must take steps to avoid potential confounding in our experimental design."
Alternatives: "prevent possible confounding" or "eliminate potential confounders".
Control fibroblasts were used to avoid potential confounding as a result of changes in gene expression potentially associated with GBA mutations.
A past suicide attempt is the best-known predictor of future suicide or suicide attempts and stratification should be considered to avoid potential confounding effects.
Subjects will be provided with all food for the duration of the study, to avoid potential confounding through differences in dietary intake between individuals.
It is thus good practice to verify that no identical subjects exist within or between samples prior to conducting any type of genetic analysis to avoid potential confounding of results.
For a condition with an onset early in life, such as a birth defect, one should also genotype the mothers of cases and the mothers of controls to avoid potential confounding due to maternally mediated genetic effects acting on the fetus during gestation.
To avoid potential confounding effects, control mice (n = 11) received the equivalent amounts of "cold," unlabeled scVEGF-PEG-DOTA conjugate.
To avoid potential confounds, the offline scoring was used as a reference and the corresponding trials were discarded from the analyses of sleep recordings.
Moreover, in studies that address several experimental questions within a single scanning session, experimental designs could be adapted to avoid potential confounds from within-scan variation in scanner-related anxiety.
In order to avoid potential confound from prosody, all of the syllables chosen were part of a content word and were placed in prosodically prominent positions.
In order to avoid potential confounds with age related brain volume reduction only subjects under the age of 39 years were included.
Care was taken to ensure that subjects were not smokers, to avoid potential confounds secondary to radiotracer retention in lungs [34].
