Abstract
Parents and nurses observed children's responses to rectal and oral temperature measurement and compared them with responses to tympanic temperature measurement. The new technology was found to be very popular, less time-consuming than oral or rectal methods, and similar in cost.
Publication types
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Comparative Study
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Body Temperature*
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Evaluation Studies as Topic
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Humans
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
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Mouth / physiology
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Rectum / physiology
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Thermometers*
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Tympanic Membrane / physiology*