The ability of 100 mothers in a suburban private pediatric practice and 100 mothers in an
urban hospital-based practice to read a mercury glass thermometer accurately was …

Objectives: Pediatricians routinely advise parents to seek immediate medical attention if
their young infant develops a fever. Many parents rely on palpation to assess their child's …

Assessment of pediatric temperature is a multistep task involving both manipulative and
cognitive skills. Emergency Physicians typically assume that parents possess these skills …

Fever is a common chief complaint for the pediatric emergency patient. It has been reported
that a mother's tactile examination of a child, as historical information, offers little useful …

• We assessed the ability of mothers to subjectively determine the presence or absence of
fever in their children when compared with simultaneous temperature determination …

To evaluate reliability of mother's subjective assessment of fever, we measured actual body
temperature of 301 children and correlated these with assessment of fever (presence or …

Fever is a common complaint in paediatrics and the ability of mothers to identify high
temperatures in their children when there is no thermometer available needs to be …

Introduction: This study was planned to determine the knowledge, thoughts, and attitudes of
mothers with 0-7-years-old children and related factors about fever. Methods: The study was …

The Clinitemp Fever Detector (Clinitemp) is a newly marketed thermometer consisting of
plasticencased thermophototropic esters of cholesterol that change color over a specific …

In the infant the temperature rises on the most trivial cause; it may be lumpy faeces in the
intestine, it may be a slight coryza. I have seen cases where even some irritation of the skin …