title: Food intake reported versus nursing records: is there agreement in surgical patients?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the agreement between oral feeding by patients and chart records of this acceptance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Besides the food intake surveys of surgical patients, the nursing records of nutrition were evaluated. Is was considered good oral feeding: intake ≥ 75% of total calories prescribed at the day; medium acceptance: 50 to 74.9%; low acceptance: < 50% and NPO (nothing per oral). The Kappa coefficient was adopted to assess agreement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were similar answers between patient and nursing records in 91.3% of NPO situations, 87.1% for good oral feeding, 17.8% for medium acceptance and 16.5% for low acceptance (Kappa = 0.45).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Agreement between patient's reports and nursing records was moderate to low. A higher proportion of similar answers were observed when the patients related good oral feeding or NPO.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, RS.. fernandabazambuja@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Braga Azambuja
authors.affiliation: Professor at Nurse School of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, RS.. mbeghetto@hcpa.ufrgs.br.
authors.forename: Mariur Gomes
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Beghetto
authors.affiliation: Nurse of the Nutritional Support Team of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA). Porto Alegre, RS.. mcassis@hcpa.ufrgs.br.
authors.forename: Michelli Cristina Silva
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Assis
authors.affiliation: Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Gastro and Hepatology Unit of the Pediatrics Department of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil.. fernandabazambuja@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Elza Daniel
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: de Mello
mesh_terms: D004435:Eating; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008499:Medical Records; D009726:Nurses; D009737:Nursing Records; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care