Clinical Endpoint临床终点
A clinical endpoint is a predefined outcome or event measured in a clinical study to determine whether a treatment or device has a clinically meaningful effect on patients. In clinical development translation, endpoints appear in protocols, statistical analysis plans, case report forms, clinical study reports, and informed consent documents, where they must be translated consistently to avoid ambiguity in data collection, safety reporting, and submission summaries.
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Where this term appears
Translators encounter endpoints when localizing clinical protocols, informed consent forms, statistical analysis plans, clinical study reports, and regulatory briefing packages. Endpoint names often combine statistical and medical language, so the translation must preserve the exact definition across all study documents to keep site staff, ethics committees, data reviewers, and regulators aligned.
Translation checks
A common error is translating the same endpoint with different wording in the protocol and the clinical study report, which makes the data look inconsistent during regulatory review. Another error is changing 'composite endpoint' into a single outcome, or mixing 'primary' and 'key secondary' when translating tables, which can distort the study's main conclusions.
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Chinese document application
Clinical Endpoint in context · protocol endpoint
- English source
- Assess the primary endpoint at the scheduled visit.
- Chinese rendering to review
- 在规定访视时评估主要终点。
Illustrative wording only. Confirm the rendering against the actual source and approved project terminology.
Check the distinction in context
Keep the endpoint, assessment method and visit aligned. Primary and secondary are not stylistic alternatives. Chinese wording should preserve the source population, timing and qualifier rather than shorten the sentence in a way that changes what is measured.
Check the returned Chinese file
Follow a primary-endpoint reference from the Chinese narrative to the schedule table. Check that visit timing, population qualifier and method wording stay paired rather than being borrowed from a neighboring secondary endpoint.
Prepare the connected files
Provide the endpoint definitions and schedule together. Identify the source owner who can resolve a mismatch between the narrative and visit table.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check intended use, warnings, document versions and approved terminology with the project team. Translation supports documentation; it does not establish product approval or regulatory acceptance.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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