Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02937129
Clinical Accuracy and Reliability of Infrared Tympanic Thermometer in an Adult Emergency Department
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 68 (actual)
- Sponsor
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 78 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The primary aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of an infrared thermometer compared to the gold standard, mercury-in-glass thermometer. The secondary aim was to compare tympanic and axillary temperature measurements by evaluating agreement and correlation to determine whether an infrared tympanic thermometer can replace an axillary mercury thermometer in the emergency department.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-08-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-12-01
- Completion
- 2015-12-01
- First posted
- 2016-10-18
- Last updated
- 2016-10-18
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02937129. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.