This was a prior investigation. The purpose of the study was to understand t he variance between axillary tempera ture and inguinal tempera ture, and the variance between oral temperature and axillary temperature from patients a t one regional hospital in the east of taiwan. The sample size was 33. The result revealed that (1) the variance between axillary temperature and inguinal temperature did not appear significant (F<0.05);(2) t he variance between oral temperature and axillary temperature did not appear significant.