The environment has effects on infrared temperature screening for COVID-19 infection

Infrared temperature measurement is a common form of mass screening for febrile illnesses such as COVID-19 infection. Efficacy of infrared monitoring is debated, and external factors can affect accuracy. We determine that outside temperature, wind, and humidity can affect infrared temperature measur...

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Autores principales: Spindel, Jeffrey F, Pokrywa, Stephen, Elder, Nathan, Smith, Clayton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8354813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34389316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.002
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spelling pubmed-83548132021-08-11 The environment has effects on infrared temperature screening for COVID-19 infection Spindel, Jeffrey F Pokrywa, Stephen Elder, Nathan Smith, Clayton Am J Infect Control Brief Report Infrared temperature measurement is a common form of mass screening for febrile illnesses such as COVID-19 infection. Efficacy of infrared monitoring is debated, and external factors can affect accuracy. We determine that outside temperature, wind, and humidity can affect infrared temperature measurements and partially account for inaccurate results. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2021-11 2021-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8354813/ /pubmed/34389316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.002 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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