Racial Differences in Detection of Fever Using Temporal vs Oral Temperature Measurements in Hospitalized Patients

Sivasubramanium V Bhavani; Zanthia Wiley; Philip A Verhoef; Craig M Coopersmith; Ighovwerha Ofotokun

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.12290

Racial Differences in Detection of Fever Using Temporal vs Oral Temperature Measurements in Hospitalized Patients

JAMA. 2022 Sep 6;328(9):885-886. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.12290.

Authors

Sivasubramanium V Bhavani¹, Zanthia Wiley¹, Philip A Verhoef², Craig M Coopersmith³, Ighovwerha Ofotokun¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Department of Medicine, University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu.
³ Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Abstract

This study evaluates the performance of temporal thermometry compared with oral thermometry in detecting fever in Black and White patients hospitalized with infection.

MeSH terms

Body Temperature*
Fever* / diagnosis
Fever* / etiology
Hospitalization
Humans
Physical Examination / instrumentation
Physical Examination / methods
Race Factors
Thermometers*

Abstract

MeSH terms

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