Falta de visitacao

English translation: need for (pharmaceutical co. representative) calls/visits

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Portuguese term or phrase:Falta de visitação
English translation:need for (pharmaceutical co. representative) calls/visits
Entered by: Christina Paiva

22:24 Apr 15, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Portuguese term or phrase: Falta de visitacao
The phrase comes up in a table listing various factors (cost, side effects, falta de visitacao, etc.) that may influence doctors not to use a certain medication.
Any ideas?
Simona de Logu
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:07
need for (pharmaceutical co. representative) calls/visits
Explanation:
Sugestion:
Pelo que entendi da sua explicação - uma das razões pelas quais o médico não usa/recomenda um medicamento é porque ele não recebe visita de representantes da indústria..

call é usado bastante na área médica
ex: pay a call to the patient(visit/short visit); on call (plantão)etc.. (Random House.)

need - a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership.

Hope this helps!
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Christina Paiva
Brazil
Local time: 22:07
Grading comment
This makes sense. Thank you for your help!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4need for (pharmaceutical co. representative) calls/visits
Christina Paiva
4 +1lack of visitation (by the doctor)
Marlene Curtis
4insufficient information/testing
Floriana Leary
2missed appointment
Marga Shaw


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
lack of visitation (by the doctor)


Explanation:
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Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in ... - Google Books Result by Rachel Ginnis Fuchs - 1984 - Social Science - 357 pages
It is likely that officials could not easily replace a deficient doctor. ... for by the 1870s the lack of visitation by the doctors and their neglect of the ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0873957482

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 21:07
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 531

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agree  Drykka
17 hrs
  -> Grata!
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
insufficient information/testing


Explanation:
concluding that visitação is lack of 'visiting', I would suggest it has to do with not enough information or enough testing on the meds
infopédia
visitação
nome feminino1. acto ou efeito de visitar; visita


Floriana Leary
United States
Local time: 21:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 18
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
missed appointment


Explanation:
falta = lack, failure, missing
visitacao = visiting

The patient misses his/her appointments or fails to keep his/her appointments, which may influence the doctor not to use a certain medication.
I could envisage this as a possibility? However, there is not enough context to be absolutely certain.

e.g.:
13 Mar 2008 ... Do not use Tegretol without telling your doctor if you are pregnant. ... You should not use Tegretol if you are allergic to carbamazepine or to certain ... Do not miss any scheduled appointments. Patients of Asian ancestry may have a ... Call your doctor promptly if this medicine does not seem to be ...
www.drugs.com/tegretol.html

Difficult patients fall into certain categories, and each requires careful ... If you do not give him the drugs he wants, he will probably move on ... The woman who has multiple pregnancies and abortions, but will not use ... If the patient is non-compliant, or misses appointments, document that in the record. ...
www.tivcme.com/pmc/difficultpatients.htm



Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
need for (pharmaceutical co. representative) calls/visits


Explanation:
Sugestion:
Pelo que entendi da sua explicação - uma das razões pelas quais o médico não usa/recomenda um medicamento é porque ele não recebe visita de representantes da indústria..

call é usado bastante na área médica
ex: pay a call to the patient(visit/short visit); on call (plantão)etc.. (Random House.)

need - a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership.

Hope this helps!

Christina Paiva
Brazil
Local time: 22:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
This makes sense. Thank you for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew: i.e. not enough visits from the reps.
3 hrs
  -> Thanks Liz :)

agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
5 hrs
  -> Thanks Isabel :)

agree  Enza Longo: yes, this makes the most sense
6 hrs
  -> Thanks Enza :)

agree  Alexandra Gouveia
6 hrs
  -> Thanks Alexandra :)
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