share (bear)

English translation: enrol

01:33 Jul 26, 2005

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)

English term or phrase: share (bear)

The 60 patients newly added will be treated and observed in China. As to the issue of the number of cases each clinical center should share (bear), the issue of whether new clinical center should be added etc. should be decided after we have consulted with the main researchers of each clinical center.

I think it should be bear. Is it right?

TIA!!!

Jianming Sun KudoZ activity Questions: 2132 (none open) (13 closed without grading) Answers: 1174
Local time: 18:33

Selected answer:enrol

Explanation:
If this is a clinical study, I would say “the number of patients to be enrolled at each clinical centre”. “Enrolled” refers to enrolment in the clinical study.
Also, in a clinical study/trial the “main researchers” in each study centre are called “principal investigators”.

Selected response from:

Elizabeth Rudin
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:33

Grading comment

Thank you all for kind help!!! I like this one. It is clear and easy to understand.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

bear

Anne Grimes

can bear or in which each clinical center should share

Elizabeth Lyons

3 +1

the burden each clinical center should bear

RHELLER

the share each clinic will accept

Tony M

enrol

Elizabeth Rudin

the extra patient load for each clinical center

Nick Lingris

4 -1

handle, take up, etc.

Balasubramaniam L.

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

13 mins confidence:

bear

Explanation:
I agree, it should be bear, because they are bearing a patient load.

Anne Grimes
Canada
Local time: 06:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

14 mins confidence:

can bear or in which each clinical center should share

Explanation:
I think you could make these modifications and use either one.

Elizabeth Lyons
United States
Local time: 03:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

17 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

the burden each clinical center should bear

Explanation:
60 new, additional patients will be treated and observed in China. With regards to the size of the burden each clinical center should bear should be decided after

Regarding a fair way of sharing this burden
of distributing the burden evenly

RHELLER
United States
Local time: 04:33
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

handle, take up, etc.

Explanation:
Both share and bear seem awkward here, from the point of view of English flow.

I would use a word like "handle" or "take up".

"Share" can be justified if some patients are treated in more than one clinic and in this sense the expense of their treatment is shared between these clinic.

For example, some high-fi equipment may be available only at some select clinics and all the patients requiring the use of that equipment are taken there, while these patients undergo treatment for those problems not requiring the equipment in other clinics.

Balasubramaniam L.
India
Local time: 16:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Hindi
PRO pts in category: 4

2 hrs confidence:

the share each clinic will accept

Explanation:
Jianming, you don't explain why you are asking this wuestion, or where your source text is taken from. It sounds like a poorly-written original, or is this your own proposed transaltion that you are asking us to validate?
I don't think there's anything wrong with the use of the word 'share', and it sounds more natural to me than 'bear', excpt that the way it is worded is odd anyway.

I would have thought "Each clinic's share of the case load" wouls have been a better way of expressing it.

Tony M
France
Local time: 12:33
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 56

5 hrs confidence:

enrol

Elizabeth Rudin
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Hungarian,

Romanian
PRO pts in category: 60

Grading comment

Thank you all for kind help!!! I like this one. It is clear and easy to understand.

5 hrs confidence:

the extra patient load for each clinical center

Explanation:
One way to put it:
The 60 patients recently added will be treated and observed in China. The number of extra cases each clinical center should handle, whether a new clinical center should be added and other such (or similar, or related) issues should be (or are to be) decided after we have consulted with the main researchers of each clinical center.

The second sentence could also start as: The extra patient load for each clinical center, whether…

Back to the original wording:
If you want to start with “As to…”
As to the issue of the number of extra cases each clinical center should handle, the issue of whether a new clinical center should be added etc., *these* should be decided…
You need a subject for your main clause.

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Note added at 5 hrs 26 mins (2005-07-26 07:00:21 GMT)
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An alternative to \"handle\" could be \"take on\"; but not \"bear\".

Nick Lingris
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:33
Native speaker of:

Greek
PRO pts in category: 20

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