Fig 1.
Flow diagram of our review process (PRISMA).
Table 1.
The pooled analysis of global prevalence of nosocomial infection.
Fig 2.
Meta-regression based on year of publication and sample size.
Fig 3.
Distribution of the global prevalence of nosocomial infection in patients based on countries, 2000–2021.
Map created with PhotoshopCC, using political borders.
Table 2.
Meta-analysis based on WHO regions.
Table 3.
Meta-analysis based on micro-organism and infection types.
Table 4.
Meta-analysis based on hospital ward.
Table 5.
Meta-analysis based on gender.
Fig 4.
Meta-regression based on age and length of saty.
Table 6.
The results of subgroups-analysis.
Fig 5.
Funnel plot of publication bias.