Taking temperatures is the main way health care providers determine if a patient has a fever. Missing a possible fever could delay treatment. A study of more than 4,000 patients finds that Black ...
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, temporal or forehead thermometers became the go to for a no-contact way of checking for fevers. But now, research shows forehead thermometers are missing ...
Forehead thermometers may not be as accurate in reading temperatures for Black hospitalized patients, compared to oral thermometers, according to researchers at Emory University and the University of ...
Forehead thermometers are not as accurate as oral thermometers in detecting fevers among hospitalized Black patients, according to a study led by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta. The ...
WATERTOWN, Mass., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly published Bhavani paper 1 contains an egregious error that puts Black people at risk, incorrectly stating ...
Forehead thermometers take temperatures using infrared radiation. Whether the devices can pick up the radiation can be affected by something called skin emissivity. Skin emissivity is how much light, ...
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Forehead thermometers were significantly less likely to have accurate readings for Black patients compared to oral thermometers. There could be... Forehead thermometers may not be as accurate in ...