ABSTRACT
Objective To systematically assess the incidence of needlestick injury in Chinese nursing interns.Methods Research articles published on China Academic Journal Electronic Retrieval Database (CNKI),Chinese Scientific Journals Full-text Database (VIP),Wanfang DATA,ISI Web of Knowledge,PUBMED,OVID,Springer and other databases before 2013 were searched,which were relevant to needlestick injury in Chinese nursing interns.Using STATA 12.0 software,pooled estimates were summarized by Meta-analysis.Results 61 articles were included in this study,which covered a total of 15 451 nursing interns.Meta-analysis showed that the pooled incidence of needlestick injury in nursing interns was 65％,95％CI=60％～71％.Although the incidence declined year by year in recent decade,it was still higher than 55％.However,the injury reporting rate was 22％,95％ CI=16％～29％.Conclusions Needlestick injury showed a high incidence in Chinese nursing interns,but declined slightly year by year.However,the injury reporting rate was still very low.