Case Study: Leading Life Science Company achieves validated Patient-Reported Outcomes in 40 languages across 50 countries with Welocalize

Leading Life Science Company - Customer Case Study

Leading Life Science Company needed 10 patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments translated from English into 40 languages and validated for use in a 50-country drug trial. To ensure conceptual equivalence across languages, dialects and cultures and to pilot-test translations with real patients, the company engaged Welocalize for translation and linguistic validation services.

Welocalize deployed native-language teams to perform multiple forward translations, reconciliation, back translation, cultural adaptation and cognitive debriefing via focus groups in 40 languages across more than 20 countries. The work enabled the client to successfully pool data across 50 countries, uncovered and corrected cognitive or cultural issues, delivered accurate on-time translations, and improved patient compliance and the quality of trial-collected data.