The phrase "avoid the potential effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent an undesired outcome or impact.
Example: "To ensure the success of the project, we must take steps to avoid the potential effect of budget overruns."
Alternatives: "prevent the possible impact" or "mitigate the likely consequence.".
Then, after the attack in Nice on 14 July, when a truck drove through crowds enjoying the Bastille Day public holiday, Le Monde said it had decided to "no longer publish photographs of the perpetrators of killings, to avoid the potential effect of posthumous glorification".
Dynamic PET imaging was performed to avoid the potential effect of animal movement during the scanning period.
To avoid the potential effect of age on miRNA expression, we also included 9-month old NZW female mice as controls.
In the T. pseudonana pcna qPCR assay, the genomic pcna copy number was calculated based on copy number per unit DNA instead of per cell to avoid the potential effect of cell loss or variable gDNA extraction efficiency on the accuracy.
This was to avoid the potential effect of AF on MSNA.
Each individual animal was used in only one behavioural test to avoid the potential effect of the other tests.
The right patagium was used this time, to avoid the potential effects of tissue damage in the previously used patagium.
Some comparisons were made using just the term births to avoid the potential effects of preterm birth.
The whole blood samples were taken immediately after admission in an attempt to avoid the potential effects of blood transfusion and fluid resuscitation.
The peripheral blood was taken immediately after admission in an attempt to avoid the potential effects of infection and fluid resuscitation.
Peripheral blood was taken immediately after admission in an attempt to avoid the potential effects of non-genetic factors on IL-10 production.
