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faire avancer les lignes

English translation: to move things forward for patients

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French term or phrase:faire avancer les lignes
English translation:to move things forward for patients
Entered by: Drmanu49

20:04 Mar 22, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Cancer treatment
French term or phrase: faire avancer les lignes
Context:
Les associations de patients sont de plus en plus consultées sur l’innovation, entretenant ainsi un véritable dialogue avec les différents acteurs de la santé et permettant de faire avancer les lignes pour les patients.

Suggestions how best to put this phrase please.
Thank you, Chris.
Bashiqa
France
Local time: 20:09
to move things forward for patients
Explanation:
Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving ...
https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=1449664962 - Traduire cette page
Jo Anne L. Earp, ‎Elizabeth A. French, ‎Melissa B. Gilkey - 2008 - ‎Medical
Patients and families are more likely to sue when they feel their provider has failed to understand their ... We are working together to move things forward. Tracey ...
Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=019105481X - Traduire cette page
David W. Kissane, ‎Barry D. Bultz, ‎Phyllis N. Butow - 2017 - ‎Medical
... to try things in a different way and move things forward if they falter or get stuck. ... the difficult situation identified, including names for patient/relative/colleague ...

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Drmanu49
France
Local time: 20:09
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3to move things forward for patients
Drmanu49
3 +1push back the boundaries
polyglot45
4 -1move the battle lines
Nathalie Stewart


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
to move things forward for patients


Explanation:
Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving ...
https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=1449664962 - Traduire cette page
Jo Anne L. Earp, ‎Elizabeth A. French, ‎Melissa B. Gilkey - 2008 - ‎Medical
Patients and families are more likely to sue when they feel their provider has failed to understand their ... We are working together to move things forward. Tracey ...
Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=019105481X - Traduire cette page
David W. Kissane, ‎Barry D. Bultz, ‎Phyllis N. Butow - 2017 - ‎Medical
... to try things in a different way and move things forward if they falter or get stuck. ... the difficult situation identified, including names for patient/relative/colleague ...



Drmanu49
France
Local time: 20:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 736
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  B D Finch
3 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne
3 hrs
  -> Thank you Nikki.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
4 days
  -> Thank you.
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
push back the boundaries


Explanation:
is the English expression that immediately comes to mind

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks. In my case sometimes very little comes to mind immediately.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: Why?
3 hrs
agree  C. MASKA
1 day 15 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
move the battle lines


Explanation:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_d'Idistaviso
Germanicus, ayant constaté la difficulté, décide de faire arrêter les légions pour leur éviter de subir des pertes sans coup férir et de faire avancer les lignes des frondeurs.

https://mbamci.com/holacracy-une-innovation-manageriale-au-s...
Le Lean Management dans les années 70 et des Méthodes Agiles plus récemment ont permis de faire avancer les lignes sans remettre fondamentalement en question ce modèle.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-...
Though everyone believed the war would be quick and decisive, it instead bogged down in a prolonged war of attrition, with soldiers in the trenches fighting ferociously to move the battle lines by mere inches.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/11/an-oral-history-of-the-h...
move the battle lines
Marines were able to move the battle lines a few hundred yards, and establish a buffer around the city.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/business/big-board-tries-t...

https://jimclair.com/
as long as I keep putting in the work I move the battle lines.

Nathalie Stewart
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  B D Finch: Inappropriate context. I think that "lignes" has more to do with queues for treatment.//Even if so, the warfare analogy is inappropriate. Consultation and dialogue, not confrontation and war.
2 hrs
  -> ? Totally disagree. It's about patient associations fighting for patients' rights to be consulted when decisions are made about innovative products.
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