A comparison of different methods of temperature measurements in sick newborns

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 418-423

  Uslu, Sinan ^a,b   Ozdemir, Hamus ^b   Bulbul, Ali ^a   Comert, Serdar ^a   Bolat, Fatih ^a   Can, Emrah ^a   Nuhoglu, Asiye ^a  

^a Sisli Etfal Children Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Diyarbakir Children Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Axillary; Digital; Infrared; Newborn; Rectal; Temperature; Thermometers; Tympanic

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AXILLARY GLASS MERCURY THERMOMETER; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIGITAL AXILLARY THERMOMETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT; INFRARED FOREHEAD SKIN THERMOMETER; INFRARED TYMPANIC THERMOMETER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTAL GLASS MERCURY THERMOMETER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETER;

AXILLA; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOMETERS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 82955169669     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmq120     Document Type: Article

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