"caused the need" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when something or someone has created the need for something to happen. For example, "The severe weather caused the need for local schools to close for the day."
In the lower care-needs level group, the following factors were related to likelihood of VNS use: the higher care-needs level, the condition that caused the need for long term care was respiratory or heart disease, the creation of a care plan by a medical care management agency, the period of needing care was two years or more, client living with family, and home-help service use (Table 5).
That caused the need for an arbitrator to break the tie.
Devolution has caused the need for a technique to measure and compare the performances of social welfare programs across multiple jurisdictions.
The use of functional nanofillers to improve the properties of rigid polyurethane (PU) foams has caused the need for a better understanding of how these nanofillers modify the reaction kinetic of the PU system.
Because of the same kinds of inherent linguistic differences that have caused the need for adapted frames in Spanish and Japanese, the SALSA data will need to be supplemented by human annotators who can fill in missing frame data, both for incomplete frames and those frames whose definitions might need to be changed to fit the German language.
"My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US... .. On YouTube, there are hundreds of songs that mock the handling of the economy and the people and companies responsible (try coming up with good rhymes for "bailout," "Lehman" and "Federal Reserve").
And she notes that charity responds to the "immediate need," while philanthropy "addresses the problem that causes the need".
This causes the need for high spatial resolution, as viscous dissipation must be kept away from the important scales.
"Iowa Student Loan does not control the factors that cause the need for students to borrow," Mr. McCullough said.
Gordon Brown said earlier this month that the ABN deal was in part responsible for causing the need for the RBS bailout.
Context: Measurement programs are subject to changing requirements, causing the need for a robustness to compensate these changes.
