Investigation and analysis of the failed report of notifiable infectious diseases by hospitals in Baiyun district of Guangzhou Municipality from 2003 to 2005

Objective The present investigation and analysis was made to better understand the epidemic situation report of notifiable diseases by hospitals in Baiyun administrative district of Guangzhou Municipality and provide reference for further improvement and standardization of management of epidemic report．Methods Data on epidemic situation of notifiable diseases in the hospitals at different levels in Baiyun district from 2003 to 2005 were collected and statistical analysis was performed on the data．Results Statistics showed that the mean rate of failed report of notifiable diseases was 4．6l％from 2003 to 2005 in hospitals in Baiyun district．The infectious diseases that had a highest rate of failed report included neonatal tetanus(25.00％)and infectious diarrhea(25.00％)，with epidemic parotitis(mumps)ranked as the second(15.52％)．There was asignificant difference in the rate of failed report of the diseases between medical facifities at differ- ent levels(PX2=56.51，P<0.001) Conclusion The problem of failed report of infectious diseases present in Baiyun district must be taken seriously and effective measures have to be taken to solve it．