Translation and review
Patient materials for a clinical study
Consent forms and patient diaries for a multi-site study, translated from Spanish and checked line by line with the medical team.
Client
Contract research organization, Madrid
Language pair
Spanish → English
Volume
18,500 words
Year
2025
The brief
The sponsor needed English versions of consent forms, patient diaries and site instructions for an ethics committee submission, on a fixed deadline.
Approach
Clinical documents leave no room for style over sense. I translated against the sponsor’s approved terminology list, flagged eleven ambiguous source sentences for the medical writer, and kept a log of every query and its answer.
Patient-facing material was written at a plain reading level, with short sentences and terms defined on first use.
Outcome
The submission went in on time with the query log attached, which the committee said made its review faster.
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