ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2004
The use of infrared thermometry for the detection of fever.
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- The diagnostic accuracy of digital, infrared and mercury-in-glass thermometers in measuring body temperature: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Internal and emergency medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Multispectral Thermometry Method Based on Optimisation Ideas.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Infrared image method for possible COVID-19 detection through febrile and subfebrile people screening.Journal of thermal biology · 2023Article
- FluNet: An AI-Enabled Influenza-Like Warning System.IEEE sensors journal · 2021Article
- An infectious disease/fever screening radar system which stratifies higher-risk patients within ten seconds using a neural network and the fuzzy grouping method.The Journal of infection · 2015Article
- Fever screening of seasonal influenza patients using a cost-effective thermopile array with small pixels for close-range thermometry.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2014Article
- Fever detection in under 5 children in a tertiary health facility using the infrared tympanic thermometer in the oral mode.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2011Article
- Assessing new methods of clinical measurement.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2009Article
- Mass screening of suspected febrile patients with remote-sensing infrared thermography: alarm temperature and optimal distance.Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi · 2008Article
- Using vital signs to assess children with acute infections: a survey of current practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008Article
- Infrared ear thermometry.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004Article
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Abstract
The use of tympanic thermometry is attractive in primary care, but a recent systematic review highlighted the paucity of data comparing tympanic thermometry with conventional methods. We report a study of 94 preschool children presenting to primary care in the United Kingdom (UK) with acute cough in whom tympanic infrared and axillary mercury thermometry are compared. Infrared thermometry showed poor agreement, poor sensitivity and high specificity. Infrared thermometry is too insensitive to be used as a screening test for fever, but when fever is already suspected, for example by touch, it may be useful as a 'rule in' test.
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