SolarSack ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Measurelet ApS, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark.
Nurs Open. 2022 Mar;9(2):1303-1310. doi: 10.1002/nop2.1173. Epub 2022 Jan 5.
To evaluate the accuracy and precision for assessing fluid intake by examining the ability of nurses, patients and healthy people to visually estimate fluid volumes, thereby reflecting the fluid monitoring process in clinical practice.
A cross-sectional study.
This study used the convenience sampling method and involved twenty-five participants from three groups; nurses, patients and healthy people. The participants carried out a set of different visual volume assessments of two types of fluids using two fluid containers. The exact volumes were measured, and the results were compared with the target volumes.
High variations were observed in the fluid volume assessments for patients, nurses and healthy persons and also were observed to be an effect of environmental factors (fluid container or fluid type) on volume perceptions. This highlights the importance of finding new and innovative ways of measuring fluids for oral intake in a hospital setting, to ensure accurate and reliable data on fluid balance and thereby increase patient safety.
通过检查护士、患者和健康人凭视觉估计液体量的能力，评估液体摄入量评估的准确性和精密度，从而反映临床实践中的液体监测过程。
横断面研究。
本研究采用便利抽样法，从护士、患者和健康人群三组中选取了 25 名参与者。参与者使用两种液体容器对两种液体进行了一系列不同的视觉容量评估。测量了确切的容量，并将结果与目标容量进行了比较。
患者、护士和健康人的液体容量评估存在较大差异，并且还观察到环境因素（液体容器或液体类型）对容量感知的影响。这凸显了在医院环境中寻找新的和创新的测量口服摄入液体的方法的重要性，以确保液体平衡的准确和可靠数据，从而提高患者安全性。
