TY - JOUR AU - Hausfater, Pierre AU - Zhao, Yan AU - Defrenne, Stéphanie AU - Bonnet, Pascale AU - Riou, Bruno T1 - Cutaneous Infrared Thermometry for Detecting Febrile Patients T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 8 SP - 1255 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We assessed the accuracy of cutaneous infrared thermometry, which measures temperature on the forehead, for detecting patients with fever in patients admitted to an emergency department. Although negative predictive value was excellent (0.99), positive predictive value was low (0.10). Therefore, we question mass detection of febrile patients by using this method. KW - Fever KW - mass detection KW - cutaneous infrared thermometry KW - infectious diseases KW - emergency KW - dispatch KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1408.080059 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/08-0059_article ER - End of Reference