RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Williams, Ian A. YR 2004 T1 How to manage patients in English–Spanish translation: A target-oriented contrastive approach to Methods JF Target. International Journal of Translation Studies VO 16 IS 1 SP 69 OP 103 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/target.16.1.05wil PB John Benjamins SN 0924-1884, AB This paper describes the application of a target-oriented contrastive analysis model to an extensive corpus of medical research articles. The analysis focuses on the Methods section and a subset of lexical items representing persons viewed as the object of clinical study. Quantitative contrastive analysis revealed statistically significant differences between the translations from English and the independently created Spanish texts in all the thematic, syntactic and lexical variables analysed. Qualitative contextual analysis showed that four basic criteria for thematic position and a series of associated translation strategies are capable of correcting the excesses and deficits observed, thus producing a more natural and acceptable target language text., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/target.16.1.05wil