Madalina Florescu Feb 7, 2023:

OPP as shifting acronym In my search for attestations of OPP as acronym for Overall Pelvic Pain I came across OPP as acronym for Other Pelvic Pain (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179916/) and Organic Pelvic Pain in an 1990 publication, alongside IPP (Iopathic Pelvic Pain) and CPP (Chronic Pelvic Pain) (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis-Wood-4/publicati...

If the meanings of OPP have been shifting over time in the anglophone medical discourse, this acronym may refer to a changing category of diagnosis of pelvic pain that has no straighforward equivalent in French.

You may ask an expert for advice. For instance a clinical distinction is made in French between "Douleur Pelvienne Chronique" (DPC) and "Douleur Pelvienne Aigue" (DPA) https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44572280/1998_Chapron_...

Nadia A. Feb 4, 2023:

@Asker https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31067329/
If this is the context your are translating, you clearly need an acronym, DPG might be inevitable :)

Nadia A. Feb 4, 2023:

My first version was correct indeed :) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31067329/

Lionel-N Feb 4, 2023:

@Nadia J'aime bien cette deuxième version qui évite d'inventer des abrévaitions médicales que nous, pauvres traducteurs......, n'avons aucune autorité pour se le permettre, surtout n'étant pas médecin(s) :)
Mais cette deuxième proposition me semble à exclure pour la simple raison qu'elle serait incompatible avec OPP.

Lionel-N Feb 4, 2023:

@Asker Pourrais-tu donner la phrase complète ? Je n'arrive pas à trouver de " daily overall pelvic pain " dans la littérature scientifique

Nadia A. Feb 4, 2023:

"overall pain" or "overall score" This has nothing to do with the debate about "inventing" abbreviations because I am sure they can be "invented" based on the context, but the source might also be read as "overall daily score of pelvic pain", in which case I would suggest "score global quotidien de douleur pelvienne" and simply omit the acronym (because in this case, it would be useless).
Hope this helps!