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Table 4 Top five languages spoken by patients (as reported by GPs) and by GPs

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

Ranking

Spoken by GPs

Reported by GPs as spoken by their refugee patients

1

Arabic (18)

Arabic (32)

2

Hindi (9)

Persian/Farsi (15)

3

Urdu (6), Bengali (6)

Assyrian (9)

4

Persian (5)

Dari (8), Urdu (8)

5

Dari (3), Cantonese (3)

Bosnian (7)

  1. Data Source: Clinician Survey at T0, Numbers in brackets are frequencies of responses