Abstract: ObjectiveTo evaluate the feasibility of improving total obedience rate of TB suspects through cooperation between university hospital and local TB control dispensary under the management of directly observed short-course therapy (DOTS)bsaed on national TB control plan.MethodsFive universities randomly selected as intervention group form seventy universities were matched to 5 universities as control and the intervention was carried out.ResultsObedience rate,referral obedience rate,tracing rate,tracing obedience rate,and total obedience rate increased by 52.6%,41.6%,50.0%, 30.2%,and 47.5%,respectively,in intervention group while tho serates were stable around 40%-50% in control group.Compared with that of the control group,changes of referral rate,referral obedience rate were statistical significant except for tracing obedience(P=0.39).ConclusionSignificant increase of total obedience rate shows effectiveness and feasibility of the cooperation bewteen local TB control dispensary and univisites.