Abstract: Objective Analyze the disease spectrum of consultation in the Infectious Diseases Department of a general hospital, to explore the demand of general hospitals for the Department of Infectious Diseases. Methods A retrospective study was conducted to analyze the distribution department and consultation characteristics of inpatients who were consulted by the Department of Infectious Disease, Shenzhen People's Hospital from June 2019 to December 2019. Results During this period, a total of 1756 cases of infection department had consultation in our hospital, comes for 4.38% of the total discharge cases in the same period; The first five departments of the consultation cases were 120 cases of gastroenterology (6.83%), 117 cases of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery (6.66%), 106 (6.04%), 105 cases of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (5.98%), and 104 cases of the Department of Nephrology (5.92%); By disease, infectious diseases 385 cases (21.92%), there are 913 cases of non-infectious infectious diseases (51.99%); In the infectious diseases, most viral hepatitis consultations (343 cases), including 270 (15.38%) of HV and 68 of chronic hepatitis C (3.87%), 42 cases of other infectious diseases (2.39%); In non-communicable infectious diseases, the top five of the consultation were 186 urinary tract infections (10.59%), 148 abdominal infections (8.43%), 146 skin soft tissue infections (8.31%), 139 lung infections (7.92%), and 85 of sepsis (4.84%). Of these, 335 applications (19.08%). Conclusion sThe consultation volume of infectious diseases in general tertiary hospitals is mainly non infectious diseases and infectious diseases, therefore, the grade A general hospitals should strengthen the training of clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and the rational use of antibiotics in their specialty.

Key words: Third-class hospital, Infectious disease, Consultation, Disease spectrum