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 ...

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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.

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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, ...

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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 forehead thermometers are less accurate than oral thermometers in detecting fevers in Black people, the news arm of Emory University — Emory News Center — is reporting.