Agreement between measures of pulmonary artery and tympanic temperatures

Res Nurs Health. 1995 Aug;18(4):365-70. doi: 10.1002/nur.4770180410.

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.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Comparative Study
  • Controlled Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Axilla / physiology
  • Body Temperature / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / nursing
  • Mouth / physiology
  • Pulmonary Artery / physiology*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Tympanic Membrane / physiology*