Accuracy of parents' subjective assessment of paediatric fever with thermometer measured fever in a primary care setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fever is a common symptom of benign childhood illness but a high fever may be a sign of a serious infection. Temperature is often used by parents to check for illness in their children, and the presence of a high temperature can act as a prompt to consult a healthcare professional. It would be helpful for GPs to understand how well parental assessment of the presence of fever correlates with temperature measurement in the clinic in order to incorporate the history of the child's fever into their clinical assessment.

Methods

Secondary analysis of a cross-sectional diagnostic method comparison study. Parents were asked whether they thought their child had fever before their temperature was measured by a researcher. Fever was defined as a temperature of 38 °C and hig

SUBMITTER: Edwards G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8862558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature