Details:

Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Hausfater, Pierre ; Zhao, Yan ; Defrenne, Stéphanie ; Bonnet, Pascale ; Riou, Bruno ;
Hausfater, Pierre ; Zhao, Yan ; Defrenne, Stéphanie ; Bonnet, Pascale ; Riou, Bruno ; Less -
Description:
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.
Subject:
[+]
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

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 14(8):1255-1258. ;
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
[+]
urn:sha256:7f132c1c4a607070ba9034cacb9667e35c3ecb5eb8d27b74f3dc27254b64a124
File Type:

Supporting Files

• 	08-0059-F1.gif	gif
  	08-0059-F1.jpg	jpeg
  	08-0059-F2.gif	gif
  	08-0059-F2.jpg	jpeg
  	08-0059_finalD.nxml	txt
  	license.txt	txt

More +