OBJECTIVE To develop and validate the Mexican-Spanish version of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality of Life questionnaire (RAQoL). METHODS The original UK English version of RAQoL was translated into Mexican-Spanish version by a bilingual translation panel. An independent lay panel reviewed the instrument's item phrasing to ensure comprehensiveness and appropriateness in colloquial Mexican-Span...

This paper presents a case study carried out during the Computer Assisted Translation MA course at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva. The main objectives of the CAT course are to provide the following: a general vision of the area of CAT tools (history and evolution of CAT tools, architecture, and current trends); basic technological skills and competences ...

AIM To assess effectiveness of guidelines for referral for elective surgical assessment. METHOD Systematic review with descriptive synthesis. DATA SOURCES Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane database up to 2008. Hand searches of journals and websites. SELECTION OF STUDIES Studies evaluated guidelines for referral from primary to secondary care, for elective surgical assessment for adults...

The study primarily aimed at assessing the appropriateness of antibiotic prescriptions in a section of public health institutions in Lesotho using an assessment tool formulated from principles of antibiotic prescribing. Relevant data on procedures of infection diagnosis and prescribed antibiotics were collected from both inpatient and outpatient case reports for a one-month period in five publi...

BACKGROUND To date, there is a lack of published studies on assessment tools to evaluate the effectiveness of stroke education programs. METHODS This study developed and validated the Malay language version of the Stroke Knowledge Test research instrument. This study involved translation, validity, and reliability phases. The instrument underwent backward and forward translation of the Englis...

We propose an unsupervised system for a variant of cross-lingual lexical substitution (CLLS) to be used in a reading scenario in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), in which single-word translations provided by a dictionary are ranked according to their appropriateness in context. In contrast to most alternative systems, ours does not rely on either parallel corpora or machine translati...

1. introduction in recent years, thanks to efforts made by such scholars as maria tymoczko, translation studies has started a movement towards reacting to euro-centrism in the discipline. the movement stresses the necessity for internationalization of translation theory and the significance of taking into account translation traditions all over the world. the authors of the present paper do bel...

Many studies abroad have focused on neural machine translation and almost all concluded that this method was much closer to humanistic translation than machine translation. Therefore, this paper aimed at investigating whether neural machine translation was more acceptable in English-Persian translation in comparison with machine translation. Hence, two types of text were chosen to be translated...

BACKGROUND In a context of increasing demand and pressure on the public health expenditure, appropriateness of colonoscopy indications is a topic of discussion. The objective of this study is to evaluate the appropriateness of colonoscopy requests performed in a primary care (PC) setting in Catalonia. METHODS Cross-sectional descriptive study. Out-patients >14 years of age, referred by their ...