Performance of temporal artery temperature measurement in ruling out fever: implications for COVID-19 screening.

2020-04-28 public and global health Title + abstract only

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The use of non-invasive temperature testing methods like temporal artery thermometers (TATs) is growing exponentially in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We performed a retrospective analysis of over 1.8 million emergency department electronic health records to identify assess the performance of TAT measurement using patients with near-contemporaneous temperature measurements taken via rectal or oral approaches. Using over 17,000 matched measurements, we show poor fever sensitivity usi...

Performance of temporal artery temperature measurement in ruling out fever: implications for COVID-19 screening.

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