Comparison of oral and tympanic temperatures in a veterans administration outpatient clinic

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 317, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 301-303

  Abolnik, Igor Z ^a,b   Kithas, Philip A ^a   McDonnald, Jeff J ^a   Soller, Jerome B ^a   Izrailevsky, Yurii A ^a   Granger, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Duluth Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Outpatients; Tympanic temperatures

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERUMEN; EARDRUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETER;

EID: 0033513435     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9629(15)40532-4     Document Type: Article

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