3 hrs confidence:  
4 hrs confidence: action profile / mode of action
Explanation:
One thing is for sure: we are NOT talking about efficacy or performance but the way a medication works. In particular, the actual (intended, programmed "school medicine"-type of action due to the ACTIVE ingredient) mode of action, unintended positive side-effects, AND, most importantly, PERCEIVED positive effects. This has nothing to do with efficacy, but, again, the way a medication WORKS or "wirkt". Saying "action profile" I am already bending the context to fit the rest of it in. It should say MODE OF ACTION (dict.cc: mode = Weise, Art und Weise, Art. What more do you want? :-) ) For instance, they are talking about medicines based on natural substances with SOFT "Wirkbild". What does this have to do with the medication's efficacy? Nothing at all. The medication in question has a SOFT MODE OF ACTION, a "soft" way of achieving the same result as a so-called "hard" or "chemical" (school-medicine) medication. Whether this is so is a very big IF. But this is a question for another day. Those asked here all refer to a medication's action profile or, even better, mode of action. In other words, how does XX help you headache? Is it, for instance, an aspirin-based compound or is it some natural/herbal remedy? THAT'S the question here as far as I understand.
Check it out or read a few "Packungsbeilagen" to derive the term from there. As I said a couple of times before, I wrote my Doctorate (Ph.D. Health Science (Chronic pain management by...)) about pain management using opiates but also involving double-blind studies with placebos and control groups, etc.
I hope this clarifies tje issue for you and makes some sense. :-)
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Note added at 5 hrs (2007-11-11 16:33:33 GMT)
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"Nutzungsformen, Motive und implizite Wirkbilder der Verwendung von Präparaten" This sentence says it ALL. "Implied mode of action". What would be an "implied efficacy profile"? I could not translate this back into German if I did not know what it was about. I would have said impliziertes/implizites Leistungsprofil(Bild) or something along these lines, but never "Wirkungsbild" or "Wirkbild".
| Nicholas Krivenko
Ireland
Local time: 12:36
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Native speaker of:  German, English
PRO pts in category: 16
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| | Grading comment Many many thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I chose Nicholas' term "action profile" since it really helped keep the >100 mentions of the term in my text concise and consistent and was general enough to be used in the various contexts I had to deal with.
As said, the best choice for my text (a consumer survey done by a marketing specialist for an over-the-counter medicine), although it may well be the case that another of the suggestions would work for a more "scientifc" text (e.g. from a pharmaceutical company) |
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9 hrs confidence: note (n.f.g.)
Explanation:
I have a feeling you may need different terms (and follow different suggestions made here) for each instance of "Wirkbild" in your text.
To add to all the suggestions, the attribute "perceived" may be useful ("perceived performance" or, "perceived mode of action") if I understand those phrases correctly.
| Anne Schulz
Germany
Local time: 13:36
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Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 1611
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