Table 5.

The degree of agreement between different methods of temperature measuring with standard methods

Methods for measuring temperature	Kappa (%)	P-value
Right tympanic	0.88	<0.001
Left tympanic	0.85	<0.001
Oral	0.72	<0.001
Axillary (armpit)	0.60	<0.001
Forehead	0.59	<0.001