The phrase "entailed changes in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the consequences or results that involve modifications or alterations in a particular context.
Example: "The new policy entailed changes in the way we handle customer complaints."
Alternatives: "resulted in changes to" or "led to modifications in".
All instrument modifications needed to enable this method were performed in-house and entailed changes to the instrument control code.
The entailed "change of state" in the V-R verbs also enables them to occur in the cardinal transitive 把 ba-construction, which profiles a bounded event with an attainable result or extent (c.f. Hopper and Thompson 1984).
This entailed major changes in military doctrines, shipbuilding, and professionalism in European navies from the 1650s onwards.
Herbivorous mammals rely on resident gut microorganisms to gain energy from their main food sources, and this has entailed major changes in digestive anatomy and physiology that allow efficient microbial fermentation to take place alongside the recovery of dietary energy by the host.
The prospective study of Bangerter et al (1998) entailed a change in treatment in six of 44 patients (14%).
This may trigger the body to respond with the symptoms now associated with Gulf-war syndrome.The pressures on troops in the Gulf war were numerous and varied: apart from fear of death and mutilation, soldiers also had to cope with the sudden shock of being sent to fight in a hot desert far from home, with all the changes in diet, sleep patterns and physical activity that this entailed.
We also had to deal with two schools withdrawing from the project because changes in circumstances did not allow them to do the training as scheduled (e.g. one school got a new principal and the training schedule would have added extra disruption to the changes that this already entailed).
A notable change in thinking entailed by our studies is rather that chromatin fragments exposed in glomeruli are released from dying renal cells, and that these fragments are not degraded during the cell death process because of an acquired loss of the dominant renal nuclease DNaseI [ 21].
The second stage entailed in-depth interviews with key informants (KIs) with an overview of research capacity in public health and the training needs of their staff.
