Forehead thermometers were significantly less likely to have accurate readings for Black patients compared to oral thermometers. There could be two reasons for this.
A municipal police officer holds a no-touch forehead thermometer at a checkpoint amid increased restrictions on residents' movements in an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus in Niteroi, Brazil, Monday, May 11, 2020.A municipal police officer holds a no-touch forehead thermometer at a checkpoint amid increased restrictions on residents' movements in an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus in Niteroi, Brazil, Monday, May 11, 2020.
"If fevers are going undetected, then alerts are not being activated," said Dr. Sivasubramanium Bhavani, lead author on the study and an assistant professor at Emory."The differences in detection of fevers could lead to delays in antibiotics and medical care for Black patients."The lag could even lead to an increased death rate in Black patients, according to the study.
In a sample size of 2,031 Black patients and 2,344 white patients, the oral and forehead temperatures were taken within an hour of each other on the patient's first day in the hospital. Temperatures did not vary significantly for white patients.Forehead, or temporal, thermometers measure temperatures through infrared radiation. Skin pigmentation could affect its ability to emit light, radiation or heat, the study said, a concept known as skin emissivity.
Or, the varying temporal thermometer readings found in the study could be due to not scanning the forehead properly, researchers said.
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