Table 3.
Language information available in the EHR Demographics tab v. manual chart review
| Language Information from the Demographics Tab (n=102, % Total) |
Language Information found Using Manual Abstraction (n=57, 56% of Total) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preferred Language | Written Language | Spoken Language | Arabic | 1 | |
| English Only | 86 | 92 | 86 | Bangla | 1 |
| English Primary | 0 | 0 | 6 | Bengali | 1 |
| English Secondary | 0 | 0 | 6 | Cambodian | 5 |
| Non-English Language Only | 7 | 7 | 2 | Cantonese | 3 |
| Not Indicated | 9 | 3 | 2 | Hindi | 2 |
| Indonesian | 9 | ||||
| Indian Language (Unspecified) | 1 | ||||
| Japanese | 1 | ||||
| Kannada | 1 | ||||
| Korean | 3 | ||||
| Malayalam | 1 | ||||
| Mandarin | 3 | ||||
| Russian | 1 | ||||
| Tagalog | 1 | ||||
| Tamil | 3 | ||||
| Telugu | 3 | ||||
| Urdu | 2 | ||||
| Vietnamese | 8 | ||||
| Multiple Non-English Languages | 7 | ||||
| Interpreter Needed | No Interpreter Needed | Not Indicated | Indication of Interpreter Utilized | 18 | |
| Interpreter Use | 5 | 52 | 45 | ||
Note. The name of the non-English language was included whenever it was mentioned at least once in the chart. However, there was not enough information to determine whether the noted language was preferred or spoken by the family, or just by the child.