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Table 1 Language Characteristics of Patient Encounters, April 2016-March 13, 2020

From: Disparities in eye clinic patient encounters among patients requiring language interpreter services

 

Visits

n

Self-identified as interpreter needed

n (%)

Total Visits

87,157

26,443 (30.3%)

Number of visits by language:

 English

53,664

0

 Spanish

25,997

21,143 (81.3%)

 Arabic

1,287

832 (64.6%)

 Amharic

929

472 (50.8%)

 Vietnamese

659

515 (78.1%)

 Russian

647

532 (82.2%)

 Nepali

470

354 (75.3%)

 Tigrinya

332

243 (73.2%)

 French

294

175 (59.5%)

 Somali

243

165 (67.9%)

 Other

2,635

2,012 (76.4%)