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What Is Back Translation For and Do I Need It?

January 13, 2016 -By: -In: Translation - Comments Off on What Is Back Translation For and Do I Need It?

Here’s the truth: Back translation is expensive. It’s equivalent in cost to three or four editorial passes and it is only useful to reviewers and participants in the quality control process who do not speak the target language. They need the back translation to follow the conversation of target language speakers.

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What Is Linguistic Validation and How Does It Improve Clinical Research?

January 4, 2016 -By: -In: Clinical Trial Translation - Comments Off on What Is Linguistic Validation and How Does It Improve Clinical Research?

Linguistic validation is a process that ensures a translated instrument has the same psychometric properties as the original. It is done so that clinical researchers can create useful datasets from different groups, which is especially important for international and multi-country clinical trials. In a recent blog post, we took a translator’s look at cognitive debriefing. […]

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