Evidence summary: Is there a consensus on the cut off point for the definition of pyrexia for temperature screening?
dc.contributor.author | National Health Library & Knowledge Service (NHLKS) | |
dc.contributor.author | Lynch, Dympna | |
dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Margaret | |
dc.contributor.author | Leen, Brendan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-08T09:10:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-08T09:10:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-26 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/627718 | |
dc.description | There is no clear consensus on the definition of pyrexia for temperature screening; however, several prominent organisations including the CDC2 and NLM5 in the United States, the HSE1 and the greater majority of the literature10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 state that a fever is deemed to be a measured temperature of 38°C or higher2. NHS guidance3 defines fever as a temperature above 37.8°C. In a study of healthcare workers’ symptoms of COVID-19 in two Dutch hospitals, Kluytmans-van Dr Bergh et al11 designated fever as a body temperature of 38°C or higher. Wei-Jei et al defined fever as being an axillary temperature of 37.5°C or higher12. A systematic review by Geneva et al6 concluded that when deciding normal body temperature, the most important patient factors remain site of measurement and patient age. Older adults age ≥60 had a lower temperature than younger adults age <60 by 0.23°C on average7. In a systematic review of published research from 1935 to 2017, Geneva et al6 found only insignificant gender difference. Hsiao et al17 recommended that medical institutions with outpatient services should take patients’ body temperature for a second time after the patients have acclimatised to being indoors. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Health Service Executive | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Evidence summaries | en_US |
dc.subject | CORONAVIRUS | en_US |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en_US |
dc.subject | PYREXIA | en_US |
dc.subject | TESTING | en_US |
dc.title | Evidence summary: Is there a consensus on the cut off point for the definition of pyrexia for temperature screening? | en_US |
dc.type | Other | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-06-08T09:10:39Z |
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