title: Agreement between measures of pulmonary artery and tympanic temperatures.
abstract: The purposes of this study were to compare pulmonary artery, oral, axillary, and two tympanic temperatures and test agreement between measures of pulmonary artery and tympanic temperatures in a convenience sample of 32 Intensive Care Unit patients. The correlation coefficients for pulmonary artery and oral, axillary, and tympanic temperatures were moderate to strong and significant at the p < .01 level. However, intraclass correlation coefficients estimated the intermethod reliability and were below the .75 criterion of acceptability. Thus, one method of temperature measurement could not be interchanged for another.
authors.affiliation: The Learning Center, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX 78705-4039, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lattavo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Britt
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dobal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001365:Axilla / Q000502:physiology; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D009055:Mouth / Q000502:physiology; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000502:physiology*