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Aural, oral, or rectal--does it make any real difference?

To the Editor.— I read with interest, the recent article by Freed et al1 in a recent issue of Pediatrics. This article was another in a seemingly endless series of articles which ask the interesting, but probably clinically irrelevant, question of whether there is a good correlation between aural te...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1993-01, Vol.91 (1), p.166-166
Main Author: Roscelli, J D
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:To the Editor.— I read with interest, the recent article by Freed et al1 in a recent issue of Pediatrics. This article was another in a seemingly endless series of articles which ask the interesting, but probably clinically irrelevant, question of whether there is a good correlation between aural temperatures and temperatures measured at other body sites, ie, rectal, oral, or axillary.2-8 The whole point of trying to determine if a patient has "an abnormal temperature," ie, fever (however that is defined), is that this fever hopefully would be a clue to the existence of some pathological process which is affecting the patient's thermoregulatory process.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.91.1.166