Burg Translations offers linguistic validation services for life science clients who conduct global clinical trials. We can make sure your terminology, QoL questionnaires, medical surveys, clinical tools are the cultural equivalent of the concepts and meaning you wish to convey for various regions worldwide. Burg provides customized services to suit each client’s need for linguistically validated translations.
Our linguistic validation services include:
- Cultural Adaptation- PROs, IVRs, QOL questionnaires
- Level II Translation - Process overview below
- International Harmonization - Multilingual trials
- Cognitive Debriefing - Up to 50 countries
- Certification - For reports and translations
- Preferred workflows- Based on client requirements or standards like ISPOR guidelines
- Formatting and DTP- For multilingual materials
Burg Translations can draw from a number of resources and employ various methods to makes sure your global clinical trials are successful, no matter the country, region or culture.
Our linguistic validation (level 2 translations) services include:
- “Forward” translation by two independent translators
- Reconciliation between the two “forward” translations
- “Backward” translation by an independent translator
- Comparison of the original instrument with the “backward” translation by in-country contact
- Review by healthcare professionals working in the relevant therapeutic area
- Cognitive debriefing
- International harmonization (if involving multiple languages)
- Editing/revisions
- Completion of the summary report
The process also includes a summary report from the translator documenting the linguistic validation methodology followed for the production of the different language versions, a list of conceptual and linguistic issues encountered (and solutions), and information about respondents involved in pilot testing of the language versions.
Our validated translations also include a "certificate of validation" certifying the translation to be conceptually equivalent to the original. The final result is culturally relevant to the target country and easily understood by the local audience for which the tool is translated.
