psychiatric workup /work-up

Just to add another one.

SKID/SCID: Psychiatric or psychological assessmet tool/instrument / structured interview by H.U. Wittchen et al.

@Marianne: Ich widerspreche ungern, aber in diesem Kontext wird das Interview "zur diganostischen Abklärung" (vermutlich: zur Beantwortung einer Frage im diagnostischen Prozess) durchgeführt. Leider lässt der Fragesteller nicht erkennen, was sich hinter dem "......." verbirgt.

"For the / In the diagnostic assessment of ....... the SKID interview was conducted", würde ich übersetzen.

@AndreasS
I don't think we'll get any more context from mac after more than a year, but "diagnostic assessment" is really good ...

"The SCID was conducted in the (psychiatric) workup of ..."
"The SCID was conducted for/in the diagnostic assessment of ..."

SCID = Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (Strukturiertes klinisches Interview für DSM-IV), so adding "interview" is like saying HIV virus ... :-)

"diagnostic work-up" ist perfekt.
Ich habe es gerade in einem von einem britischen Krankenhaus ausgestellten Zeugnis für einen Arzt.

Perfect?
"diagnostic work-up" is doppelt gemoppelt . If you look at the definition given above, a "work-up" is "an intensive diagnostic study", so what you're now in effect saying is "a diagnostic intensive diagnostic study" ... but, yes, you'll see it used often enough ... :-)

You don't need to say "diagnostic" if you're being specific, e.g. "cardiac workup", "respiratory workup" or, as in the OP, "psychiatric workup"

Abzuklären wäre hier die syntaktische Einbettung in den Satz. Im Deutschen wird ein Gesundheitszustand abgeklärt. Wird nun im Englischen nur "a patient is worked-up", dann ist "work-up" keine 1:1 Entsprechung zu diagnostischer Abklärung.

"Im Deutschen wird ein Gesundheitszustand abgeklärt" stimmt zumindest für Medizinsprech nicht: da wird ein Befund oder ein Symptom/eine Beschwerde auf mögliche Ursachen hin abgeklärt. Je nach Methode kann zB psychiatrisch, internistisch, radiologisch etc. abgeklärt werden. Diagnostisch abgeklärt allerdings wäre ebenso doppelt gemoppelt wie diagnostic work-up

@Illdiko: a work-up may refer to the patient or to a medical condition/disease:
e.g.
"After an overview of the manner in which cancer spreads from its site of origin to bone (pathophysiology), the natural history and work-up of this disease will be discussed, followed by a presentation of the surgical and non-surgical options."
https://www.google.ch/search?q=%22work-up+of+*disease%22+site%3A.edu&ie=utf-8&oe...
"Crohn Disease Workup"
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/172940-workup
"Clinical Presentation and Workup of Celiac Disease"
http://usgips.com/News.html

You don't necessarily want to write the sentence 1:1 - that could result in a very poor translation. The skill of translating is to understand the meaning and get the message across accurately. And, in my experience, an "Abklärung" in this context is equivalent to a "work(-)up" - the procedures and results are the same.

One tries, of course, not to get the patient too worked up in the process ;-)

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#9: Ein Befund ist die schriftliche Feststellung eines Gesundheitszustands, ein Symptom und geäußerte Beschwerden sind ebenfalls Aspekte eines Gesundheitszustands - ich sehe mich also in meiner Aussage #8 bestätigt.

#10: We are not discussing translating skills, we are talking about dictionary entries. A good dictionary will aim at being as little ambiguous as possible, which is not the case when you equate "work-up" and "diagnostische Abklärung" without complement. An English-speaking user might combine "Abklärung" with "Patient" and thus produce a wrong translation.

#12. We are not discussing translating skills, we are talking about dictionary entries.
Yes we are, no we're not.
This was originally a translation question, from German to English, not a proposal for a dictionary entry.
> "Zur diagnostischen Abklärung von.......wurde das SKID- Interview durchgeführt."
"The SCID was conducted in the work(-)up of ..." is fine IMHO.

>Das Adjektiv kann also helfen, auf den Gebrauchskontext hinzuweisen.
The context in the OP is clear - a psychiatric assessment. But put "diagnostic" in if you must - many people do ...

>An English-speaking user might combine "Abklärung" with "Patient" and thus produce a wrong translation.
The same could be said of many words merely looked up in a dictionary, no matter how unambiguous, if you don't know how to use them correctly.
From your remarks, "Abklärung" in German refers just to the medical condition while in English "work-up" can be used to refer to the patient or the condition. It's up to the user to work this out and provide an accurate translation in the target language.