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look-forward period

23:23 Sep 20, 2017
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / clinical study, drug initiator period
English term or phrase: look-forward period
....initiators that could be classified as off-label users, based on the 6-month look-back and 7-days look-forward period to
ascertain indication, was 42.3% (95% CI: 34.0%, 50.8%) among the patients enrolled in this study...
Cruz


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4 +3looking at the next (7-day) period
Yvonne Gallagher
4 +1Hasta ...
Abel Morales Estrada


  

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Hasta ...


Explanation:
A reserva de conocer un poco más del contexto, pero habla de un periodo de entre los 6 últimos meses hasta los próximos 7 días.
La expresión idiomática es look forward to, que es anhelar, o esperar, pero en este caso parece referirse más bien a un periodo comprendido entre 6 meses en retrospectiva; y el autor usa look forward, en prospectiva, para ser concordante con look back. A mi parecer, debes adecuar la traducción para explicar esta circunstancia.
Saludos. Espero que te sea de utilidad.

Amebosert.

Abel Morales Estrada
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  acetran
6 hrs
agree  Cruz María García Pacheco: Creo que prospectivo realmente se adapta mejor a lo que busco, ya que utilicé periodo retrospectivo para "look-back period" y como en este caso es un período de 7 días posteriores al inicio del tto, prospectivo estaría bien. Gracias
12 hrs
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: This was asked in En>En pair
16 hrs
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
looking at the next (7-day) period


Explanation:
This is En>En?

so they are looking forward to the following 7-day period. The full period being studied or assessed is 6 months in the past plus 7 days into the future

Look(ing) forward often has an element of projecting/planning/anticipating (what is likely to happen? Where are we going? What are the trends?) but here it looks
from the limited context that is its just observing data from the entire period

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 16:17
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
5 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Helena Chavarria: This is an EN>EN question.
7 hrs
  -> Yes, it is. Thanks Helena
agree  JohnMcDove
226 days
  -> Many thanks John! though makes no difference as asker has "declined" for whatever reason! (no explanation!)
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