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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 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0031-4005 1098-4275 |
DOI: | 10.1542/peds.91.1.166 |