Table 5.

The prevalence of sepsis in hospital–wide and ICUs in China.

Setting	References	Prevalence	95%CI	Weight (%)
Hospital–wide	Xiu et al. (17)	0.3%	0.2–0.3%	25.48
	Zhou et al. (20)	8.1%	7.7–8.5%	24.44
	Jiang et al. (21)	0.4%	0.4–0.4%	25.48
	Tian et al. (25)	6.8%	6.4–7.1%	24.60
	Overall	3.8%	2.9–4.7%	100.00
ICUs	Cheng et al. (18)	8.7%	7.8–9.6%	20.06
	Zhou et al. (19)	37.3%	34.7–39.9%	19.88
	Wang et al. (22)	42.5%	41.1–43.9%	20.03
	Xie et al. (23)	20.6%	19.9–21.3%	20.07
	Cao (24)	18.3%	16.4–20.2%	19.98
	Overall	25.5%	13.9–37.0%	100.00