Validation of fever thermometers in a clinical setting
- Conditions
- temperatuurfebrile temperaturefever
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON51535
- Lead Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 225
Participants must meet the following criteria:
* 18 years or older
* According to the applied triage protocol, measurement of temperature will
already be a necessary test given the entry-complaints, assessed by emergency
department nursing staff.
* The attending physician may request temperature measurement for diagnostic
reasons.
* Proficiency in Dutch or English language, or accompanied by an (in)formal
caregiver proficient in these languages.
Participants who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded:
* Inability to give consent, due to life-threatening situations or reduced
consciousness,
* Incapacitated patients, i.e. patients who do not understand the information
about their illness, treatment; cannot decide for themselves or do not
understand the consequences of a decision,
* pregnancy
* congenital or acquired anomaly of the external auditory meatus
* diseases of the ear.
* participants with haemorrhoids to avoid discomfort and possible bleeding
during rectal measurements.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Primary: Measuring the accuracy of generated temperature values using Exergen<br /><br>TAT-5000 (temporal artery), Genius 3 (tympanic membrane), the Braun ThermoScan<br /><br>6520 (tympanic membrane), in concordance to Thermoval Rapid (rectal). </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Demographic characteristics * age, sex, body mass and stature - will be<br /><br>retrieved from the participant by the student researcher, and used as<br /><br>confounder in the analysis</p><br>