English term
31 years experience with thanks.
Native in: Japanese (Variant: Standard-Japan) 
Works in: Japanese to English, English to Japanese
Slash
Some players refused acupuncture therapy despite trainer recommendations, which may have affected the number who underwent acupuncture therapy. ...
For Discussion/Conclusion, I saw Discussion / Conclusion. And is it better not to use slash?
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Jennifer Levey
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Clauwolf
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Jan 29, 2023 12:25: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "use of punctuation (slash)"
Jan 29, 2023 21:16: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Rob Grayson, AllegroTrans, Rachel Fell
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Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
slash
For Discussion/Conclusion, I saw Discussion / Conclusion.
IOW, should there be spaces before and after the slash?
The spaces are superfluous and can be omitted without any loss of meaning, or risk of creating confusion. I usually omit the spaces, so as to keep the words together if they cross a line-break (if you decide to keep the spaces, you could use two non-breaking spaces - but that's extra finger-work when typing...)
That's different to the use of an em-dash in similar situations, where spaces are needed to avoid confusion with a hyphen. Example:
"John - Paul's brother-in-law - was sick."
In that example, all the spaces are necessary (the sick person was Paul, not John-Paul) it would be helpful to use non-breaking spaces after 'John' and before 'was'.
Asker's second question:
is it better not to use slash?
In the sample text provided, the slash is in a heading, where it helps to have fewer words.
If the same words appeared in the text under that heading, it would be better to use 'or' instead of a slash.
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Note added at 1 hr (2023-01-29 13:30:00 GMT)
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NB: A slash in a heading can also mean "and/or", if it's a generic heading to a block of text that can contain discussion, conclusions - or both.
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AllegroTrans
: It's usual to omit the spaces, but it's not wrong to insert them
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writeaway
: Sorry-didn't see you also posted the grammarly reference.
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Grammarly
Grammarly
Updated on January 14, 2021
GRAMMAR
There are two types of slashes: a backslash () and a forward slash (/). The backslash is used only for computer coding. The forward slash, often simply referred to as a slash, is a punctuation mark used in English. The only time it is appropriate to use a comma after a slash is when demonstrating breaks between lines of poetry, songs, or plays.
What does / mean between words?
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To indicate or
Often, when a slash is used in a formal or informal text, it is meant to indicate the word or. The examples below illustrate this meaning of the forward slash:
When leaving the classroom, the teacher noticed that a student had left his/her backpack.
College freshmen should bring a mattress and/or cot to sleep on during orientation.
If/when Mary ever shows up, we can all head out to the party together.
Burgers or pizza for dinner? Yeah, either/or is fine with me.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/slash/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAz9ieBhCI...
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