Cutaneous Infrared Thermometry for Detecting Febrile Patients

Hausfater, Pierre; Zhao, Yan; Defrenne, Stéphanie; Bonnet, Pascale; Riou, Bruno

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Cutaneous Infrared Thermometry for Detecting Febrile Patients

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Aug 2008
By Hausfater, Pierre ; Zhao, Yan ; Defrenne, Stéphanie ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Hausfater, Pierre ; Zhao, Yan ; Defrenne, Stéphanie ; Bonnet, Pascale ; Riou, Bruno
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We assessed the accuracy of cutaneous infrared thermometry, which measures temperature on the forehead, for detecting patients with fever in patients admitted to an emergency department. Although negative predictive value was excellent (0.99), positive predictive value was low (0.10). Therefore, we question mass detection of febrile patients by using this method.
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Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Child Cutaneous Infrared Thermometry Dispatch Emergency Female Fever Humans Infectious Diseases Male Mass Detection Middle Aged Multivariate Analysis Regression Analysis Reproducibility Of Results Sensitivity And Specificity Thermometers
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Emerg Infect Dis. 14(8):1255-1258.
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Journal Article
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14
Issue:

8
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:7f132c1c4a607070ba9034cacb9667e35c3ecb5eb8d27b74f3dc27254b64a124
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