Temperature screening has negligible value for control of COVID-19.
Australia
Body Temperature
/ physiology
COVID-19
Cohort Studies
Confidence Intervals
Coronavirus Infections
/ epidemiology
Emergency Service, Hospital
/ statistics & numerical data
Female
Fever
/ diagnosis
Humans
Incidence
Male
Mass Screening
/ methods
Pandemics
/ prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral
/ epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tertiary Care Centers
COVID-19
emergency medicine
fever
screening
temperature
Journal
Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
ISSN: 1742-6723
Titre abrégé: Emerg Med Australas
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 101199824
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2020
10 2020
Historique:
received:
20
05
2020
revised:
23
05
2020
accepted:
14
06
2020
pubmed:
25
6
2020
medline:
8
10
2020
entrez:
25
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To report the incidence of fever among patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Retrospective cohort study of patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at a single centre. Temperature at time of testing and on repeat testing within 24 h were collected. At the time of testing, fever was detected (sensitivity) in 16 of 86 (19%; 95% confidence interval 11-28) episodes of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2. With repeat testing, fever was detected in 18 of 75 (24%; 95% confidence interval 15-35) episodes. In an Australian hospital, screening for fever lacked sensitivity for detection of patients with SARS-CoV-2.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32578926
doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13578
pmc: PMC7361729
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
867-869Informations de copyright
© 2020 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
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