Bottom Line: arrival temperature had no prognostic value in non-septic older patients. Hypothermia in sepsis, but not fever, predicted mortality.
References
Finn Erland Nielsen, Osama Bin Abdullah, Lana Chafranska, Thomas Andersen Schmidt, Rune Husås Sørensen,
Temperature at admission and mortality in older adults with infection: Limited prognostic value in non-sepsis cases,
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine,
Volume 103,
2026,
Pages 1-8,
ISSN 0735-6757, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2026.01.045.
