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Table 3 Practice personnel speaking languages other than English (LOTE) and languages spoken by recently arrived refugees1

From: Response to language barriers with patients from refugee background in general practice in Australia: findings from the OPTIMISE study

  

Speak LOTE2

Speak Refugee language1,3

Practice personnel

N

Yes (n)

%

95 % CI

Yes (n)

%

95 % CI

GPs

143

122

85.3

69.3–78.4

62

43.4

35.1–40.0

Nurses

68

34

50.0

44.8–90.7

8

11.8

51.9–22.1

Reception/Admin

142

87

61.3

37.8–64.2

45

31.7

5.2–40.2

Allied Health

108

59

54.6

61.0–62.4

33

30.6

21.9–27.9

All

461

302

65.6

52.7–69.8

148

32.8

24.1–36.3

  1. Data Source: Practice Description Survey (PDS)
  2. 1Refugee languages are based on patients’ country of origin or ethnicity of the source countries of recent humanitarian entrants to Australia as reported by GPs (Department of Immigration and Border Protection, 2013 to 2017 [33]
  3. 2Chi-square test of “Speak LOTE” by practice staff p = 0.000
  4. 3Chi-square tests of “Speaks Refugee language” by practice staff p = 0.000
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