Diagnostic accuracy of three different methods of temperature measurement in acutely ill geriatric patients

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 740-746

  Singler, Katrin ^a   Bertsch, Thomas ^a   Heppner, Hans Juergen ^a   Kob, Robert ^b   Hammer, Klaus ^a   Biber, Roland ^b   Sieber, Cornel C ^b   Christ, Michael ^a  

^a Nuremberg Hospital   (Germany)

^b Institute for Biomedicine of Aging   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Geriatrics; Older people; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFRARED THERMOMETER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPORAL ARTERY THERMOMETRY; THERMOMETRY; TYMPANAL THERMOMETRY; TYMPANIC THERMOMETER;

EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GERIATRICS; OLDER PEOPLE; THERMOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AREA UNDER CURVE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; FEVER; GERIATRICS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887121848     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft121     Document Type: Article

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