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Dec 18, 2017 05:08
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Finnish term

mennessä vastatut tulokset

Finnish to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
From a doctor's notes for a cardiac patient:

"ProBNP viimeksi 8100. Osastolla otettu ProBNP ei vielä vastattu." [proBNP = a type of measurement]

Elsewhere in the same notes:

"[DDMMYYYY] mennessä vastatut tulokset.
[a long list of measurements follows]"

I can't zero in on what "vastata" means in this context. How should it be interpreted?

Thanks
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Discussion

Timo Lehtilä Dec 18, 2017:
Yes (with explanation) Yes, doctors are, apparently, cryptic everywhere in their writing. Here, ’vastatut tulokset’ refers to results that have been received from e.g. laboratories when first some tissue samples have been sent there. In ordinary Finnish it might be ‘saadut tulokset’ (got results). Of course, doctorial expression is more exact, because it implies that some results have not been got yet. That is, they are unanswered so far.

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received

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Note added at 10 hrs (2017-12-18 16:02:20 GMT)
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sorry I just realised it isn't obvious at all

maybe I've become linguistically Finnised
Note from asker:
It's not obvious, but thank you.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tarja Karjalainen : yes, results received/not received
8 mins
agree Timo Lehtilä : Yes (with explanation)
9 hrs
neutral Desmond O'Rourke : In the context of a date it should read "results received by DDMMYYYY"
15 hrs
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