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Why Temperature Screening for Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Noncontact Infrared Thermometers Does Not Work.
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- State-of-the-Art Review: Contemporary Ambulatory Approach to Adult Fever of Unknown Origin.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Review
- Policy challenges in the provision of COVID-19 border screening: evidence from eight countries.BMC public health · 2026Review
- Barriers to translating continuous monitoring technologies for preventative medicine.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Review
- Syndromic surveillance of population-level COVID-19 burden with cough monitoring in a hospital emergency waiting room.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- A Continuously Worn Dual Temperature Sensor System for Accurate Monitoring of Core Body Temperature from the Ear Canal.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Heat-assisted detection and ranging.Nature · 2023Article
- Pilot Influenza Syndromic Surveillance System Based on Absenteeism and Temperature in China: Development and Usability Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
- Temperature thresholds and screening of febrile people by non-contact measurement of the face using infrared thermography - A methodology proposal.Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research · 2022Article
- Is It Useful to Determine the Temperature of Children for COVID-19 Screening in the Dental Setting?Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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- Temperature Measurement in Well Children Promotes Bias.Pediatrics · 2022Article
- Optimal diagnostic fever thresholds using non-contact infrared thermometers under COVID-19.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Ethics for integrating emerging technologies to contain COVID-19 in Zimbabwe.Human behavior and emerging technologies · 2021Article
- Thermal Screening in COVID-19: Why Is It Commonplace?Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2021Article
- Revisiting COVID-19 policies: 10 evidence-based recommendations for where to go from here.BMC public health · 2021Review
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- Saliva TwoStep for rapid detection of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2021Article
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- Performance of COVID-19 associated symptoms and temperature checking as a screening tool for SARS-CoV-2 infection.PloS one · 2021Article
- End-to-end SARS-CoV-2 transmission risks in sport: Current evidence and practical recommendations.South African journal of sports medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 screening can evaluate large numbers of patients while reducing healthcare exposures and limiting further spread of the virus. Temperature screening has been a focal point of case detection during the pandemic because it is one of the earliest and most frequently reported manifestations of the illness. We describe important factors to consider of screened individuals as well as the measurement process and current outcomes. Optimal temperature-based screening involves both individual and environmental factors as well as reconsideration of the current fever threshold.
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