The gold standard for assessing a patient's core temperature is:

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The pulmonary artery thermometer is considered the gold standard of core temperature for providing the most accurate temperature reading.
Both oral and temporal artery temperatures are similar to the core pulmonary artery in accuracy.The tympanic membrane temperature is less accurate.A similar study by Farnell and others (2005)found that the tympanic thermometer was highly variable,by as much as 1° C.

The Gold Standard for Assessing a Patient's Core Temperature Is