Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Apr 2022
Physician Identification Badges: A Multispecialty Quality Improvement Study to Address Professional Misidentification and Bias.
To evaluate whether providing resident physicians with "DOCTOR" role identification badges would impact perceptions of bias in the workforce and alter misidentification rates. ⋯ Residents reported decreased role misidentification after use of a role identification badge, most prominently improved among women. Decreasing workplace bias is essential in efforts to improve both diversity and inclusion efforts in training programs.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Apr 2022
Identification of Natural SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Seroprevalence Studies Among Vaccinated Populations.
Most SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays cannot distinguish between antibodies that developed after natural infection and those that developed after vaccination. We assessed the accuracy of a nucleocapsid-containing assay in identifying natural infection among vaccinated individuals. A longitudinal cohort composed of health care workers in the Minneapolis/St. ⋯ Among all participants, nucleocapsid response predicted recent infection with an area under the curve of 0.93 (95% CI, 0.88 to 0.99). Among individuals vaccinated more than 10 days before antibody testing, the specificity of the nucleocapsid-containing assay was 92%, whereas the specificity of the spike-only assay was 0%. An IgG assay identifying reactivity to nucleocapsid protein is an accurate predictor of natural infection among a partially vaccinated population, whereas a spike-only assay performed poorly.