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 ...

The Lifetemp device is part of a wireless patient surveillance system developed by Isansys, which allows healthcare providers to remotely monitor a patient's vital signs even after they've left the ...

Thermometers that read body temperature via the forehead have become a common sight throughout the pandemic, but whether they always spot a fever may depend on the color of someone's skin. In a new ...

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 ...

A new study has found that certain types of thermometers may not be accurate among Black patients. Researchers at Emory University said temporal artery thermometers, thermometers that measure a person ...

Patients with diabetes who used dermal thermometry were able to detect high-temperature differences between their feet, thus making it a practical method to predict the onset of neuropathic ulceration ...

A new study finds that temporal thermometers – used to measure body temperature on the forehead – may be less accurate than oral thermometers at detecting fevers among hospitalized Black patients.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...