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Commentary on: Ley C, Heath F, Hastie T, et al. Defining Usual Oral Temperature Ranges in Outpatients Using an Unsupervised Learning Algorithm. JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Oct 1;183(10):1128-1135. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.4291.
This study suggests that clinicians should consider age, sex, height, weight and time of day when assessing a patient’s oral temperature. Consider moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach to fever diagnosis.
Future research should focus on how these individualised temperature norms can be integrated into clinical decision-making processes. Develop new diagnostic criteria for fever.
Traditionally, the ‘normal’ oral temperature of 37°C has been a long-standing benchmark in health assessments. However, this standard fails to consider individual variability influenced by age, sex and metabolism. Ley et al
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