Objective To survey the difference of measurement results between axillary temperature measurement used in clinic and standardized axillary temperature measurement in textbooks. Methods For the same patients and in the nearest time interval, the two methods mentioned above were used to mea-sure the axillary temperature. Totally 782 patients were measured. Results There was no statistical sig-nificance between the measuring results of the two methods. Conclusions Axillary temperature measure-ment used in clinic should be standardized so that more scientific data will be got,effective operation and humanized service can be realized.