title: HOSPITAL NUTRITIONAL CARE: PROPOSITIONS ENDORSED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  the incidence of hospital undernutrition and its consequences for both the patient and the hospital has demanded procedures that ensure the delivery of good-quality hospital nutritional care. On the basis of literature reports, this study aimed to build a hospital nutritional care propositions that the scientific community later evaluated and endorsed.
  
  
  METHODS
  forty-one propositions concerning patient clinical nutritional care and hospital food service management by the Hospital Nutrition and Food Service were designed. One hundred professionals, researchers, and professors evaluated the propositions. Agreement with the propositions was analyzed by means of a five-point Likert scale (I strongly disagree; I partially disagree; I have no opinion; I partially agree; I totally agree) associated with each proposition. Agreement was considered to occur when 70% or more of the interviewees agreed (partially or totally) with the proposition. The procedure Proc Corresp of the software SAS 10, version 8, aided descriptive statistics and correspondence analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  more than 90% of the interviewees completely or partially agreed with 85% (35) of the 41 propositions; between 80 and 90% of the interviewees totally or partially agreed with 15% (6) of the 41 propositions. All the proposed criteria had over 70% agreement (total and partial). The lowest value of total agreement was 70%, attributed to the proposition that suggested patient's participation in nutritional intervention.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the scientific community presented high level of agreement with the hospital nutritional care propositions, which suggested an important consensus about it.
authors: Associate Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil.. wanda@fmrp.usp.br.
authors: Rosa Wanda
authors: RW
authors: Diez-Garcia
authors: Associate Professor of Department of Social Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo.. edson@fmrp.usp.br.
authors: Edson
authors: E
authors: Zangiacomi Martinez
authors: Professor of Nutrition Department, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal Univesity of Triângulo Mineiro. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil.. fernandapenaforte@yahoo.com.br.
authors: Fernanda Rodrigues de Oliveira
authors: FR
authors: Penaforte
authors: Professor of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Uberlândia. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil.. camila@ufu.br.
authors: Camila Cremonezi
authors: CC
authors: Japur
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D032921:Consensus; D005521:Food Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D044623:Nutrition Therapy; D009753:Nutritive Value; D011787:Quality of Health Care