How Language Barriers Affect Global Patient Recruitment
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- Due to a number of factors including higher patient recruitment rates, clinical trials are increasingly outsourced to emerging regions – particularly Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia.
- Successful international trial initiation, however, is greatly dependent on choosing the right language service partner to provide quality and accurate translation of global patient recruitment materials.
- Most regulatory authorities require translation of informed consent forms (ICFs) and other patient recruitment materials into the patient’s native language by a certified professional translator.
- Identifying all native languages within the target patient population is one of the most important elements to consider before conducting global trials.
- Translations of patient information must also be properly localized in order to ensure that they can be understood by all participants.
- Additionally, patient rights must be protected according to international standards while at the same time respecting local cultural norms.
- Professional translation means taking into account not only vast grammatical and structural linguistic differences, but also identifying proper language equivalents for terms or phrases which do not have a direct translation.
- As a result, only translation agencies with experience working in the life science industry are best equipped to address any issues related to unique linguistic and/or cultural barriers.
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