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Medical - Mathematics & Statistics / heel dressings | | Spanish term or phrase: pueden girarse en nuestra contra | Hello
I am now proofreading my 14000 word translation on the subject of the performance of different dressings on heel pressure ulcers and would like some help with this phrase. I am unable to reach an elegant solution here.
Here is the context:
Un punto débil de nuestro estudio consistiría en el no reemplazo de pacientes del grupo de vendage protector, lo cual no se realizó por cuestiones éticas al constatar los investigadores los resultados preliminares del estudio a favor de una medida, el apósito hidrocelular, que iba demonstrando su mayor efectividad.
En el caso de las UPP (pressure ulcers) las medidas que a priori son más baratas, pueden girarse en nuestra contra, cuando se evalúa su efectividad y se analiza su coste en base al total de la medida (material y mano de obra necesaria para su aplicación) y efectividad.
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|  liz askewKudoZ activityQuestions: 892 (none open) ( 3 without valid answers) ( 64 closed without grading) Answers: 11273
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| | may work against us / may not be such good value for money | Explanation:
My immediate reaction. I imagine you've already thought of this and aren't happy for some reason, but here it is fwiw!
The second option is more a matter of extrapolation because I get the impression it's the money angle that is being studied...
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Note added at 7 hrs (2011-02-21 18:56:31 GMT)
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May actually count against them ....
I think what is throwing me is "en nuestra contra" - surely it is actually against the dressings themselves insofar as they lose ranking points...
But I still feel rather inclined towards my second suggestion.
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| Selected response from:
Noni Gilbert
Local time: 10:19
| Grading comment May work against us.
Thank you!
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7 mins confidence:
9 mins confidence: may turn out not to be so
Explanation:
las medidas que a priori son más baratas, pueden girarse en nuestra contra, cuando se evalúa su efectividad y se analiza su coste en base
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the measures which initially seem the cheapest may turn out not to be so when assessing their efficacy and analysing their cost based on......
This is how I would say it.
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7 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 may work against us / may not be such good value for money
Explanation:
My immediate reaction. I imagine you've already thought of this and aren't happy for some reason, but here it is fwiw!
The second option is more a matter of extrapolation because I get the impression it's the money angle that is being studied...
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Note added at 7 hrs (2011-02-21 18:56:31 GMT)
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May actually count against them ....
I think what is throwing me is "en nuestra contra" - surely it is actually against the dressings themselves insofar as they lose ranking points...
But I still feel rather inclined towards my second suggestion.
;-)
| Noni Gilbert
Local time: 10:19
Native speaker of:  English
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| | Grading comment May work against us.
Thank you! |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: This works well!! I had put "may have gone against us"...I have to put most of this translation in the past tense although it is written in the present (another proverbial nightmare).
Asker: hi, the writers in this experimental study actually demonstrated/prove that the more expensive dressing is more effective and more beneficial to the patient in reducing pressure and therefore healing pressure ulcers:)
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