OBJECTIVE：To k now about t he current situation of pre-prescription review in medical institutions in China ，and provide reference for quality improvement of pre-prescription review in medical institutions. METHODS ：Retrieved from PubMed ， the Cochrane library ，EMbase（Ovid platform ），CNKI，CBM，VIP and Wanfang databases ，the studies about pre-prescription review in medical institutions in China were collected during the inception to Mar. 2020. After data extraction of the literatures met the inclusion and exclusion criteria ，descriptive analysis was used. RESULTS ：A total of 38 literatures were included ，involving 29 medical institutions ，of which 25 were third-grade class-A medical institutions （86.21％），22 comprehensive medical institutions （75.86％）；pre-prescription review was carried out from 2007 to 2019. Totally 84.62％ of medical institutions adopted the mode of “systematic review+manual review ”，and the main audited prescriptions were outpatient （emergency）prescriptions（76.00％）. Medical institutions adopting this mode mainly adopted the mode that auditing pharmacists rechecked the problem prescriptions intercepted by the system. The average manual review time of problem prescriptions in 8 medical institutions was within 60 s；the number of auditing pharmacists in 16 reported medical institutions ranged from 1 to 8，and educational degree of auditing pharmacists in 1 reported medical institution were bachelor degree or above. Their professional titles of 6 reported medical institutions were junior or above （83.33％）. Eleven medical institutions had full-time auditing posts （90.91％）. Success rate of problem prescription intervention was 93.99％ ；pre-prescription review could increase the qualification rate of prescription. CONCLUSION：The pre-prescription review in medical institutions in China has achieved certain results ，but still faces some problems，such as imperfect information system ，insufficient ability of auditing pharmacists and poor communication between doctors and pharmacists ，which will be the aspects that should be paid attention to in the future.