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permitirá precisar mejor

English translation: facilitates more accurate

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Spanish term or phrase:permitirá precisar mejor
English translation:facilitates more accurate
Entered by: James A. Walsh

12:33 Jan 29, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Computers: Software / Hospital Management Software Manual
Spanish term or phrase: permitirá precisar mejor
Hello, I’m translating a Hospital Management Software Manual written in Spanish from Spain (with generous helpings of Spanglish) and going into US English.

The whole sentence that this term is part of is a bit of a ridiculous statement in itself, in my opinion; but aside from that, I have to try to make some sense of it.

The Codes in the context below are ICD-10 codes (International Classification of Diseases).

Context:

“Procedures:

“El profesional médico podrá registrar un nuevo procedimiento al usuario, así como modificar o eliminar uno creado anteriormente por él mismo. Es posible la creación de procedimientos a partir de una codificación o por texto libre. Para los casos de texto libre, el usuario simplemente debe escribir el texto del procedimiento y para los codificados se realizará la búsqueda del mismo en alguno de los catálogos disponibles, configurables por centro, servicio o clínica. Para procedimientos codificados, el cambio en la descripción permitirá precisar mejor la descripción del procedimiento que ofrece el catálogo. El procedimiento quedará asociado a la asistencia desde la que se crea.“

At the moment I’ve got:

“Changing the description of coded procedures helps to clarify their catalog descriptions.”

But it just seems silly to me that simply changing the description “will allow their (catalog) description to be specified better” [literally].

Or am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance.
James A. Walsh
Spain
Local time: 09:58
facilitates a more precise description
Explanation:
What you have is, of course, fine.

The point I think is that a better description allows it to be "filed away" more accurately in the right place. Vague descriptions get misfiled often.
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DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 08:58
Grading comment
Thanks, DLyons, and everyone else for your help. Still don't really get the sentence fully. Think it's just poorly written myself.

Cheers :)
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3 +2facilitates a more precise description
DLyons
4will allow to specify better
Carol Geraldine Chua Yu


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
facilitates a more precise description


Explanation:
What you have is, of course, fine.

The point I think is that a better description allows it to be "filed away" more accurately in the right place. Vague descriptions get misfiled often.

DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 08:58
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks, DLyons, and everyone else for your help. Still don't really get the sentence fully. Think it's just poorly written myself.

Cheers :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emiliano Pantoja: accurate description
2 hrs
  -> Gracias Emiliano. Sí "accurate description".
agree  Kevin G
18 hrs
  -> Thanks Kevin.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
will allow to specify better


Explanation:
Based on how I understand the sentence, it basically deals with how the procedural change will refine/aid in narrowing down the available catalog descriptions.


    Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=prec...
Carol Geraldine Chua Yu
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:58
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in TagalogTagalog, Native in EnglishEnglish
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