Non-contact infrared thermometers compared with current approaches in primary care for children aged 5 years and under: a method comparison study

Van den Bruel, Ann; Verbakel, Jan; Wang, Kay; Fleming, Susannah; Holtman, Gea; Glogowska, Margaret; Morris, Elizabeth; Edwards, George; Abakar Ismail, Fatene; Curtis, Kathryn; Goetz, James; Barnes, Grace; Slivkova, Ralitsa; Nesbitt, Charlotte; Aslam, Suhail; Swift, Ealish; Williams, Harriet; Hayward, Gail

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Non-contact infrared thermometers gave lower average temperature readings than current measurement approaches for children with acute illness and fever sensitivity was poor.

Ann Van den Bruel, Jan Verbakel, Kay Wang , Susannah Fleming , Gea Holtman , Margaret Glogowska , Elizabeth Morris , George Edwards , Fatene Abakar Ismail , Kathryn Curtis , James Goetz , Grace Barnes , Ralitsa Slivkova , Charlotte Nesbitt , Suhail Aslam , Ealish Swift , Harriet Williams & Gail Hayward .

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Ann Van den Bruel ^1,^2,^*, Jan Verbakel ^1,², Kay Wang ¹, Susannah Fleming ¹, Gea Holtman ^1,³, Margaret Glogowska ¹, Elizabeth Morris ¹, George Edwards ¹, Fatene Abakar Ismail ¹, Kathryn Curtis ¹, James Goetz ¹, Grace Barnes ¹, Ralitsa Slivkova ¹, Charlotte Nesbitt ¹, Suhail Aslam ¹, Ealish Swift ¹, Harriet Williams ¹, Gail Hayward ¹

¹ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
² Academic Centre for Primary Care, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
³ Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
^* Corresponding author Email: ann.vandenbruel@kuleuven.be

Declared competing interests of authors: Ann Van den Bruel was a member of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health panel, and was a member of the Diagnosis and Screening Methods group from 2015 to 2018. Gail Hayward was a member of the HTA Commissioning Board. Susannah Fleming was funded under a Programme Grants for Applied Research programme grant with number RP-PG-1210-12003 [Monitoring Long-term Conditions in Primary Care; URL: www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/pgfar/rp-pg-1210-12003 (accessed June 2020)] while working on this report.

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