Could ear temperature measurement be used in a hospital?;Kan øretemperaturmåling brukes i sykehus?

Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening

Volumn 125, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2763-2765

  Nordås, Turid Grydeland ^a   Leiren, Silje ^a   Hansen, Kari Schrøder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EAR CANAL THERMOMETRY; EAR TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFRARED THERMOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETER; THERMOMETRY; TYMPANIC THERMOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EAR CANAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOMETERS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 27644556980     PISSN: 00292001     EISSN: 00292001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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