An in-country review, also known as an ICR, in-house review, third-party review, or client review, is a vital quality assurance step for life science translations. In an ICR, a subject matter expert (SME), often on the client side, who is knowledgeable about the life science industry and the product and is also a native speaker of the language, serves as an in-country reviewer to ensure that the translations are linguistically and culturally appropriate for the target audience. This helps to ensure that the documents are accurate in both technical and cultural senses, accounting for unconscious bias and translation errors.
In-house reviews or third-party reviews are an essential aspect of the quality assurance process, reducing the incidence of inconsistent terminology that ultimately leads to companies needing to retranslate documents, as well as increased project prices and extended translation timelines. For life science and healthcare companies, accuracy is vitally important since inaccurate, inconsistent terminology and medical translation can not only delay time to market but also potentially lead to patient death if treatments are not available across languages. Medical documents that have undergone in-country review reduce the risk of these potential issues, saving life science companies time and money.
CSOFT Health Sciences’ global network of 10,000+ linguists, in-country reviewers, and subject matter experts provides life science companies with comprehensive, accurate, in-country review solutions that save costs by ensuring accurate and appropriate terminology, messaging, and linguistic and cultural tone.
Our in-country review services can help to prevent and eliminate a range of potential issues, including:
- Mistranslations
- Inconsistent Terminology
- Missing Translations
- Subject Matter Inaccuracy
- Terminology Errors
- Spelling and Grammar Mistakes
- Readability and Testing Issues
- Cultural and Regional Appropriateness
End-to-End Medical Translations
Medical translations are crucial for life science and healthcare organizations to improve health and access to medical care around the world. Accurate medical translation services for medical products are required not only by law in many cases but also are important so patients can make informed health decisions. The translation of medical content requires professional, experienced linguists who have in-depth and up-to-date subject matter knowledge, as well as advanced translation technology, to provide accurate and high-quality medical translation services. Since medical translations play a key role in administering new treatments to patients, as well as innovating new drug therapies and medical devices, there is no room for error, and in-country reviews help to eliminate any costly error before it can cause harm. CSOFT Health Sciences’ global team of over 10,000 subject matter expert linguists have a minimum of 7 years of experience in the field to meet your medical translation needs.
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Full Translation Coverage for A Range of Therapeutic Areas
CSOFT Health Sciences’ medical translation and localization coverage extends across a full range of clients, therapeutic areas, and treatment settings, especially during the in-country review process. Whether you are a hospital looking for medical communication support in a related area, such as cardiology translations, autoimmune disease translations, geriatrics translations, endocrinology translations, oncology translations, and urology translations, or a research organization recruiting patients for clinical trials, CSOFT’s end-to-end localization support covers an extensive range of conditions and therapies across disciplines.
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Quality Assurance
CSOFT Health Sciences has developed a process for quality assurance to ensure that every medical translation project meets quality standards in a cost-effective and timely manner. We are certified in ISO 17100:2015, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 13485:2016 to ensure our customized solutions meet global regulatory requirements. Our subject matter expert linguists have at least seven years of experience and work with in-country reviewers and project style guides to meet industry standards. CSOFT offers an online translation management ecosystem for one central location to leverage real-time translation memory and terminology management through our innovative cloud-based technology. Every step of the way, CSOFT has you covered.
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Data Security
With over 20 years of experience in medical translation, CSOFT Health Sciences understands the importance of data security to our clients, and we take nothing for granted when confidentiality is a concern. Our well-documented and fully traceable information data security policies, checklists, and quality records leverage the best practices of ISO 27001. They are designed to protect everything from source data to translations. From our 24/7/365 data monitoring and advanced encryption to our access control measures, you can be sure that your project data is safe from start to finish.
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