通过国内外著名医学期刊对严重急性呼吸综合征(SARS)报道时滞的比较,认为导致国内医学期刊对SARS相关报道较慢的主要原因包括:长期以来计划经济中固有的思维方式,我国医学专家的工作和思维习惯,编委会的导向作用,科技期刊编辑的新闻敏感性,审稿的质量和时效以及期刊的出版周期等。作者对所涉及各方面的原因进行了分析,并提出了应对措施。 By comparing domestic and international famous medical journals for reporting time lags of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), it is considered that the main reasons leading to the slow reporting of SARS in domestic medical journals include: the mode of thinking inherent in the planned economy for a long time, the medical experts The work and thinking habits, the guiding role of editorial board, sci-tech journal editors’ news sensitivity, the quality and timeliness of peer review and periodical publication period. The author analyzes the causes of the various aspects involved and proposes countermeasures.