Diagnostic Accuracy of Body Temperature Measurement in Geriatric Patients

Infection Clinical Trial

Official title:

Diagnostic Accuracy of Body Temperature Measurement in Geriatric Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01639430
• Other study ID #: KSMC-tempger-1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 10, 2012
• Last updated: July 11, 2012
• Start date: May 2012
• Est. completion date: June 2012

Study information

• Verified date: July 2012
• Source: Klinikum Nürnberg
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Germany: Ethics Commission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Retrospective analysis of a quality measurement project examining the quality of vital parameter measurement in consecutive patients >= 75 years presenting to the emergency department.

Primary goal of the study is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of body temperature measurement using different methods to diagnose infection in patients >= 75 years presenting to the emergency department. The secondary goal is to compare the reliability of tympanal and temporal artery thermometry with rectal temperature measurement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 427
• Est. completion date: June 2012
• Est. primary completion date: June 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 75 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• >= 75 years

• given informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients who do not speak the German language

• patients with unstable cardiorespiratory status

• presence of contraindications to one of the temperature measurement methods

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fever
• Infection

Intervention

Other:
• rectal, tympanal and temporal artery thermometry
Temperature measurement was done once in all patients included within the first hour of patients´presentation to the emergency department. Tympanal measurement was carried out by the use of infrared ear thermometry, temporal artery thermometry was done using infrared technology as well.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Klinikum Nürnberg, emergency department	Nuremberg	Bavaria

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Klinikum Nürnberg

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Diagnostic accuracy of rectal, tympanal and temporal artery thermometry to diagnose infection	The primary outcome measure is the diagnostic accuracy of rectal, tympanal and temporal artery thermometry to diagnose infection in old patients presenting to the ED	June 2012