Table 3.

Subgroup analysis for comparisons of the prevalence of VRE across study regions.

Study Region	Number of Studies	Prevalence (%)	95% CI	I2 (%)	Q	Heterogeneity Test
						DF	p
South-West	8	20.7	13.1–28.2	95.5	155.404	7	<0.001
North-Central	3	22.4	−3.6–48.3	97.81	91.227	2	<0.001
South-East	3	10.2	2.7–17.8	51.15	4.094	2	0.129
North-West	1	25.0	3.8–46.2	NA	-	-	-
South-South	4	56.2	33.5–79.0	88.37	25.802	3	<0.001
Overall	19	25.3	19.8–30.8	96.26	480.667	18	<0.001