Accuracy of tympanic and infrared skin thermometers in children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 974-978

  Paes, B F ^a   Vermeulen, K ^a   Brohet, R M ^a   Van Der Ploeg, T ^a   De Winter, J P ^a  

^a Infection and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HEARING DISORDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFRARED SKIN THERMOMETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OTOSCOPY; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN COLOR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TYMPANIC THERMOMETER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFRARED RAYS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETERS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 78649856387     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.185801     Document Type: Article

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