Clinical Accuracy and Reliability of Infrared Tympanic Thermometer in an Adult Emergency Department

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02937129

Enrollment

Registered

2016-10-18

Start date

2015-08-31

Completion date

2015-12-31

Last updated

2016-10-18

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Conditions

Fever

Keywords

Infrared tympanic thermometer, Axillary thermometer, Mercury glass thermometer, Adult emergency department

Brief summary

The primary aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of an infrared thermometer compared to the gold standard, mercury-in-glass thermometer. The secondary aim was to compare tympanic and axillary temperature measurements by evaluating agreement and correlation to determine whether an infrared tympanic thermometer can replace an axillary mercury thermometer in the emergency department.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 78 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Above 37.5°C measured by axillary mercury thermometer

Exclusion criteria

1. otitis external/media 2. soft-tissue infection over the axillary fossa and forehead 3. complete occlusion by earwax 4. severe illness 5. trauma

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
The body temperatures of fever patients measured by the infrared tympanic thermometer	up to 5 months	1. Fever patients were measured by the infrared tympanic thermometer in the emergency department. 2. Their tympanic temperatures were obtained from both sides of the body three times. 3. Use statistical methods to evaluate the relevance and consistency between the tympanic temperatures and gold standard temperatures(measured by the glass mercury thermometer).

Outcome results