Continuous temperature monitoring by a wearable device for early detection of febrile events in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Taiwan, 2020

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
³ Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: cplin@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
⁷ Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: nyko@mail.ncku.edu.tw.

Yi-Ting Chung et al. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;53(3):503-504.

doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.005. Epub 2020 Apr 13.

¹ Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
³ Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: cplin@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
⁷ Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: nyko@mail.ncku.edu.tw.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; HEARThermo; Thermal screening; Wearable device.

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