Prevalence and trend of hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in Chinese mainland: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 4 Prevalence of HCV infection among blood donors of different donation types

Donation type	No. of studies	Prevalence of HCV% (95%CI)	Heterogeneity		Model
			I ²	Pvalue
voluntary donation	73	0.97(0.79,1.16)	99.60%	0.00	REM
paid donation	89	15.53(13.28,17.91)	99.70%	0.00	REM
whole blood donors	53	7.90(6.44,9.51)	98.50%	0.00	REM
plasma donors	64	33.95(29.80,38.17)	99.40%	0.00	REM

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