Correction to: Feasibility and acceptability of involving bilingual community navigators to improve access to health and social care services in general practice setting of Australia

Correction to: BMC Health Services Research (2023) 23:476.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09514-4.

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified errors in some of the references. The corrected references are listed below and the original article [1] has been corrected.

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• The correct citation of reference #15 should be:

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• The correct citation of reference #26 should be:

Mistry SK, Harris E, Harris MF. Scoping the needs, roles and implementation of bilingual community navigators in general practice settings. Health Soc Care Community. 2022;30(6):e5495–e5505.

• The correct citation of reference #27 should be:

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• The correct citation of reference #42 should be:

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• The correct citation of reference #61 should be:

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• The correct citation of reference #62 should be:

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• The reference #63 in the published paper was in error. It should be removed and replaced with the following citation:

Henderson S, Kendall E. ‘Community navigators’: making a difference by promoting health in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Logan, Queensland. Aust J Prim Health. 2011;17(4):347–54.