Clinical Research and Trials Translations

Achieve semantic and conceptual equivalence in any language

Pharmaceutical translations – Medical devices translations – Clinical research and trials translations

Regulatory complexities, patient access, increased competition, new technology – there are so many obstacles that pharmaceutical companies are facing when conducting a clinical trial. When you consider the spiraling cost and high attrition rates, it is easy to see why clinical professionals like yourself have to plan every clinical trial very meticulously, treating all aspects as critical to its success.

As globalisation has opened the door for global clinical trials in sites, language services have become one of these critical pieces of the puzzle as well. Inability to recruit or retain patients, delays in the approval process or major deviations from protocol, improper collection and collation of data are just some of the key pains that would result from ignoring this aspect. Not to mention the most important aspect – failure to comply with the ethical standards and presenting inaccurate information to the patients.

By assigning your clinical research translations projects to Intertranslations, you overcome these challenges.

Why do so many pharmaceuticals, biotech companies and contract research organizations request our services?

We use accredited, professional and qualified translators who are native speakers, with numerous years of experience in clinical trial terminology.
We understand the regulations and work in symbiosis with the client to achieve the final goal – accurate translation, semantic and conceptual equivalence.
We are ISO 27100:2013 certified and have implemented procedures to ensure your clinical trials information remains confidential.
We know the translation requirements, procedures, processes and workflows involved – European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group (QLG) or International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) principles of good practice for the translation and cultural adaptation (TCA) of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) measures.
We improve continuously to benefit from any methodological advances and provide you with a detailed linguistic validation process.

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How do we ensure high quality?

– We follow the translation process recommended by the ISPOR, EORTC or WHO:

Analysis of the source text before the actual translation process
Forward translation of the source text into the target language
If two forward translations are created, we reconcile the two translations into one target translation
Back translation of the text into the original language
Evaluation of the back-translated versions of the document with the original. Issues are resolved and a final translation is generated
Harmonization of back translations of multiple language versions in order to achieve semantic and conceptual equivalence of all translations.
Final proofreading of the text

– We build translation memories and glossaries

– We test our clinical translators independently – cognitive interviewing, readability testing

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Which translation services does Intertranslations provide?

All our professional translation services are provided in line with the ISO 17100:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications we hold.

Translation
Revision
Proofreading
Back-translation
Certification
Desktop publishing

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What types of clinical trial documentation do we translate?

We translate any essential document for the conduct of a clinical trial, to confirm the validity of the trial conduct and the integrity of data collected. Whether it regards documents from before the clinical phase of the trial, during the clinical conduct or after completion or termination of the trial, we implement quality control throughout the entire translation process.

List of documents:

investigator’s brochure
protocol and amendments
case report form
informed consent forms
financial agreements and legal contracts
approval/favourable opinion of Institutional Review Board (IRB) /Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)
labels
patient diaries
patient information leaflets
patient reported outcomes
ethical committees and regulatory bodies correspondence translations
recruitment materials
monitoring reports
audit documentation
clinical trial reports

For more information, contact one of our clinical trial translation experts today.

TESTIMONIALS

Communication and public affairs Manager at MSD

Intertranslations and MSD have collaborated on translation projects for medical and pharmaceutical documents, specifically clinical research and medical training materials. During our partnership, we have received approximately 150 pages of translated content. We can confirm that Intertranslations provides high-quality translations and has always delivered on-time or earlier.

Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center

We would like to thank Ιntertranslations very much for their cooperation. We appreciate the effort you put to meet the requirements we set.

Head of Procurement and General Administration at Bayer

We have collaborated with Intertranslations on the translation of various medical and pharmaceutical documents, including clinical research and training material. Completing more than 500 pages of translations on our behalf, they have exceeded our standards of quality and have always delivered within our requested delivery period.

Procurement Manager at Janssen – Cilag

We would like to thank the Intertranslations team for the fruitful collaboration that our companies have had over the past 3 years. During this time, your services have extended to different translation projects concerning medical, scientific, and legal documents. We have outsourced roughly 400 pages to your teams, who have provided fast, quality work that meets and exceeds our standards. We would also like to thank you for dealing with urgent turnovers so efficiently. We have confidence that the Intertranslations team will be there to help and support us during tight deadlines and stressful times.

Clinical Research Manager, Pfizer

Intertranslations has been working in collaboration with Pfizer Hellas as a translation service partner. They have completed translations of multiple documents on our behalf, such as clinical research protocols, training materials, and various other medical documents. Over the course of our collaboration, Intertranslations has completed approximately 10,000 pages of translations. The quality of their translations has exceeded our standards, and their deliveries are flexible and timely.