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OBJECTIVE To understand the status of the hospital infection and risk factors,as well as the existing problems of infection management,to improve the surveillance method of incidence rate of hospital infection and strengthen the infectious precaution and control measures.METHODS By efforts of the professional staff of hospital,with cooperateion of the clinic personnel infection management group,all the patients in hospital were investigated when sampled from zero hour of the day before investigation to the zero hour of the day of investigation,according to the requirement of nosocomial infection rate to design the questionnaire.The data were analyzed.RESULTS The patients investigated in hospital were 638,from them 38 cases with hospital infections were found,the incidence and case-time rates of hospital infection were 6.0% and 7.4%,respectively.Respiratory infection was the most common.CONCLUSIONS Compared with the investigation method used previously,the current approach is easy and standardized.It also provides the credible reference to improve infection surveillance and management.