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services de première ligne

English translation: primary care

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French term or phrase:services de première ligne
English translation:primary care
Entered by: Maryna A

17:12 Feb 22, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / mental health
French term or phrase: services de première ligne
De plus, lorsqu’elles cherchent de l’aide, ces personnes s’adressent habituellement aux services de première ligne, et plus particulièrement aux médecins généralistes.
Maryna A
Canada
Local time: 14:31
primary care
Explanation:
Not just used in the US.
Selected response from:

Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:31
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7primary care
Angela Dickson (X)
4 +3first line service
Lionel_M (X)
4front-line services
B D Finch
4 -2top-quality / high-class services
margaret caulfield
Summary of reference entries provided
primary care physician
Travelin Ann

  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
first line service


Explanation:
Pansys GmbH Information Systems - [ Traduire cette page ]
Pansys is a group of engineers, physicians and economists running the first line service of all types of hospital-IT solutions. ...
www.pansys.com/services/en/index.html - En cache

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Note added at 5 mins (2010-02-22 17:17:18 GMT)
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Uses of first line emergency services in Cuba - Elsevier - [ Traduire cette page ]
de P De Vos - 2008 - Cité 1 fois - Autres articles - Les 16 versions
The agreement between the physicians' classification of “emergency” based ..... be used as a proxy for appropriate use: being a genuine first line service, ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168851007001480 - Pages similairesThe effect of Taiwan's National Health Insurance programme on ... - [ Traduire cette page ]
de BYJ Lin - 2007 - Cité 1 fois - Autres articles
medicine specialists, who are not typically viewed as first-line service professionals and. Chinese-medicine physicians who come under different policy and ...
inderscience.metapress.com/index/156CP63Y15UXKKT0.pdfProfession of medicine: a study of the sociology of applied knowledge - Résultats Google Recherche de Livres
Eliot Freidson - 1988 - Social Science - 419 pages
However, while the patient may choose his own first-line service in the person of the first-line practitioner, once the physician he chooses confesses his ...
books.google.fr/books?isbn=0226262286...The Application of Lean Thinking to the Care of Patients With Bone ... - [ Traduire cette page ]
de CS Kim - 2007 - Cité 2 fois - Autres articles - Les 3 versions
We first established a team representative for all the first-line service providers: clerical staff, attending and resident physicians, ...
jop.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/full/3/4/189

Lionel_M (X)
Local time: 20:31
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 39

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Travelin Ann: or "primary care" in US terminology
13 mins
  -> Thanks a lot Ann
neutral  ormiston: We see 'primary care' in the UK too and I think it's more appropriate here The first two definitions of primary care are related. A number of doctors, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants, especially in clinics and doctor’s offices, care for adul
18 mins
  -> Primary care would be more related to "emergency" in FR (Primary care unit); here it seems to me more "gerenic" as "first line"
neutral  Angela Dickson (X): I don't understand "emergy" - do you mean emergency medicine? Primary care means a lot more than that.//OK my mistake. Can you explain what you do mean?//I meant could you explain your "emergy" comment above?
46 mins
  -> "emergency" has nothing to do here. I don't think the context is that of emergency. (sorry I just realized I wrote "emergy"; of course it was "emergency")
agree  Drmanu49: Agree with Ann.
1 hr
  -> Thanks
agree  philgoddard
5 hrs
  -> Merci Phil
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
top-quality / high-class services


Explanation:
Either of the two.

margaret caulfield
Local time: 20:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Angela Dickson (X): neither of those, I'm afraid. This doesn't refer to the quality of the service, but rather denotes the first set of healthcare professionals the patient sees.
11 mins
neutral  Travelin Ann: That was my first thought, too, but the context makes me think differently
22 mins
neutral  Carol Gullidge: not in this context, which is quite well explained
1 hr
disagree  Rosa Paredes: neither in this context
3 hrs
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
primary care


Explanation:
Not just used in the US.


    Reference: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Primarycare/DH_288
Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:31
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  SJLD
33 mins
agree  Carol Gullidge: definitely in UK as well (the famous PCTs: - Primary Care Trusts)
36 mins
agree  MatthewLaSon: Yes, primary health care services (first point of contact)
2 hrs
agree  Rosa Paredes: Also used in Canada
2 hrs
agree  liz askew: This is what we call it in the UK. Never come across "first-line...".
2 hrs
agree  philgoddard
4 hrs
agree  Helen Genevier
22 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
front-line services


Explanation:
This is the term used in the UK for services that are the initial point of client or patient contact.

"How to develop a nursing career away from front-line services ... I even undertook a 2-year MSc degree in Healthcare Management which I was told would open ..."
www.nursingtimes.net/...career/...career/...career...front-... -

"18 Nov 2009 ... Protect County Council Front-line services, say Lib Dems ... the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) which manages and funds healthcare in ..."
wantagelibdems.org.uk/.../protect_county_council_frontline_services_say_lib_dems.html



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"However, for GPs and schools to be able to function as full primary care ... and prevention) provided by primary care and other front-line services. ..."
apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/6/5/388 -

Of course, there are support elements of primary care that are not front-line.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 20:31
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
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Reference comments


20 mins peer agreement (net): +4
Reference: primary care physician

Reference information:
First point of contact


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_care
Travelin Ann
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  ormiston: you should post it: "Primary care services are provided by the people you normally see first when you have a health problem. It might be a visit to your doctor or dentist, ... www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1078.aspx?CategoryID=68...153 - Cached - Similar
3 mins
  -> Thanks, Ormiston
agree  Angela Dickson (X): yes, sorry I didn't see this before I posted my answer.
45 mins
  -> Thanks, Angela, it happens
agree  Drmanu49
1 hr
  -> Thanks Drmanu
agree  MatthewLaSon: Yes, that's it!
2 hrs
  -> Merci, Matthew
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