The phrase 'caused mistakes' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when something has resulted in mistakes being made. For example: "His carelessness caused mistakes on the test."
Distractions can cause mistakes or time lost, and studies show that even a 20- to 30-point score difference can affect admissions decisions and merit-based financial aid.
A moment's inattention on the part of the drilling technician, who is sitting at a console in his apartment and also checking his e-mail, can cause mistakes.
In response to these findings, one can admit their relevance to the pedagogy of critical thinking but still recall the distinction between what causes mistakes and what the mistakes are.
Sleep issues are not just causing mistakes, they are affecting our whole workforce.
When teams do pick up the blitz or take shots down the field, they'll often succeed, but overall the relentless pressure will cause mistakes, break up the offense's rhythm and cause them to fall behind.
Many pharmacists fill hundreds of prescriptions a day; any distractions or interruptions during the busy period can cause mistakes, and make you have to wait even longer to get your prescription.
However, such rigid judgment criteria are likely to cause mistakes.
The process is time consuming and may cause mistakes.
Our data suggest that pretreatment with nickel interferes with the repair of radiation-induced DNA damage and potentially cause mistakes in DNA repair.
A second class of chemotherapeutics, the antimetabolites, such as aminopterin and amethopterin, do not directly interact with DNA bases but interfere with synthesis of precursors as folate and cause mistakes during DNA replication of cancer cells (Shewach and Kuchta, 2009).
