%0 Journal Article %T Discrepancias entre o informe verbal e os registros no cart£¿o da gestante, um instrumento negligenciado %A Barreto %A Fabiano Djalma Figueir£¿a Paes %A Albuquerque %A Rivaldo Mendes de %J Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetr¨ªcia %D 2012 %I Federa??o Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetr¨ªcia %R 10.1590/S0100-72032012000600004 %X purpose: to compare the filling out of the prenatal care card of pregnant women at a school-service and other services, as well as to verify the concordance between these records and verbal information provided by the puerperae. methods: a two-stage epidemiological, cross-sectional study was performed with stratified sampling, proportional to number of births. in the first stage, the information recorded on the prenatal care card in the school-service was compared to that recorded in units not linked to higher health education in recife (pe). in the second stage, the information about prenatal care was collected with a semi-structured questionnaire applied to women during the puerperal period. a total of 262 puerperae older than 19 years, who had a prenatal care card at the time of delivery were included in the study from may to july 2008. data were analyzed statistically by the ¦Ö2 test, student¡äs t-test or mann-whitney test, all one-sided to the right, with the level of significance set at 5%. results: the information more often recorded on the prenatal care card in the school-service was: schooling (86.5 versus 70.3%; p=0.002), marital status, (83.7 versus 70.9%; p=0.01), weight prior to pregnancy (72.1 versus 46.8%; p<0.001), height (62.5 versus 45.6%; p=0.007), and educational practices (76.9 versus 11.4%; p<0.001) and, at other services, only birth weight <2,500 g (15.4 versus 27.2% at the school-service; p=0.02). there were significant discrepancies between data obtained by verbal information and the prenatal care records of the pregnant women. at the school-service, 40.3% of pregnant women received adequate prenatal care versus 20.3% at other units. conclusions: in all services, there was a predominance of recorded information directly related to delivery, while information about actions with preventive characteristics during prenatal care was neglected. %K pregnant women %K prenatal care %K medical audit %K medical records. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-72032012000600004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en