Erschienen in:
15.09.2020 | COVID-19 | Concise Research Report
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Performance of Temporal Artery Temperature Measurement in Ruling Out Fever: Implications for COVID-19 Screening
verfasst von:
Adrian D. Haimovich, MD, PhD, R. Andrew Taylor, MD, MHS, Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 11/2020
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Excerpt
Current CDC recommendations for mitigation of community COVID-19 transmission include temperature screening.
1 Due to low cost and ease-of-use, temporal artery thermometers (TATs) applied to the forehead are widely employed to screen for fever, but prior literature has suggested poor sensitivity and high variability.
2, 3 Published data are largely limited by small per-study sample sizes and a focus on pediatric, surgical, and intensive care settings that are not generalizable to real-world screening populations. …