Joseph Tein (asker) Jul 8, 2010:

I'm closing this because ProZ is starting to send me messages to close it, and I haven't gotten a convincing answer. Since I don't have any clear context ... these are two abbreviations at the bottom of a laboratory form, not clinical information ... I told the client that it's an unknown abbreviation. Haven't heard back, so I assume they're OK with it. Thank you everybody for your suggestions.

Lionel_M (X) Jul 3, 2010:

I think "responsabile" would be "resp." non "referente". Ma perché no !?

Mr Murray (X) Jul 3, 2010:

Bad computer day Can't get this to post right:

Because the translation is for 'a laboratory report' with personal data...I'm quite convinced it's the abbreviation used for:

"Responsabile e incaricato"

Unfortunately, I can't find the references online to show it for here.

But copy that phrase, with the quotation marks, and put it into your fave search engine...you should see lots of examples for hospital data.

Mr Murray (X) Jul 3, 2010:

Possibly... I think it's possibly short for 'responsabile / incaricato'.
R-E-F is used often as 'responsabile di filiale' - in this sense, someone responsible for a department - like 'director'
Not R-I-F, which is used for 'reference'...
My keyboard's not working right...I'll add more later.

luskie Jul 3, 2010:

sì, è un'ipotesi... poi, con "referto", mi viene in mente "referto incluso" - non so se possa andare. ma di solito "incluso" si abbrevia con "incl.".
ciao docs :)
(comunque, rileggendo, se fosse "referente incaricato" potrebbe anche essere un'altra persona rispetto a xxx)

Panagiotis Andrias (X) Jul 3, 2010:

referente incaricato... perchè no?

luskie Jul 3, 2010:

solo un'ipotesi al volo referente incaricato? (anche) della validazione elettronica? cioè il dr xxx?