A comparison of temperature measurements using three ear thermometers

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 158-166

  Weiss, Marianne E ^a   Sitzer, Verna ^b   Clarke, Meg ^b   Haley, Kathy ^b   Richards, Mary ^b   Sanchez, Ann ^b   Gocka, Ian ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EAR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOMETER;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; EAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MOUTH; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 0032196675     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0897-1897(98)80274-7     Document Type: Article

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