Should we believe emergency department patients self-reported tetanus vaccine status?

Immunization surveying is the milestone in prevention of diseases and screening for populations at risk yet its reliability needs to be confirmed [1]. No study has assessed the reliability of ED patients' self-reported immunization status for tetanus. The reliability of self-reported immunization status for tetanus in ED has only been assessed by performing a rapid bed-side tetanus antibody testing. The lack of description for surveying methodology or reliability could not confer conclusive results [2-5].
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research