Evaluation of a telethermographic system for temperature screening at a large tertiary-care referral hospital during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Jan;42(1):103-105. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.1254. Epub 2020 Oct 12.

Authors

Katherine C Leach¹, Misti G Ellsworth¹, Luis Z Ostrosky², Cynthia S Bell¹, Kathy Masters³, John Calhoun³, Lance Ferguson³, Susie Distefano³, Michael L Chang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas.
² Department of Internal Medicine, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas.
³ Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.

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MeSH terms

Body Temperature
COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / prevention & control
Dimensional Measurement Accuracy
Humans
Mass Screening* / instrumentation
Mass Screening* / methods
Remote Sensing Technology
Reproducibility of Results
SARS-CoV-2
Telemetry* / instrumentation
Telemetry* / methods
Tertiary Care Centers
Texas
Thermography* / instrumentation
Thermography* / methods