Este trabajo fue recibido el 2 de Mayo de 2012 y aceptado para ser publicado el 28 de Octubre de 2012. seases has been the focus of several recent studies (4,14,17,18). Different methods may be used in the nutritional assessment in this patients, such as nutritional anamnesis, dietary intake analisys, subjective global assessment, anthropometry, biochemical and immunological methods, composite indexes, such as the global assessment proposed by the Royal Free Hospital, and functional tests, such as dynamometry (14,15,17). In fact, the definition of nutritional diagnosis, despite the various methods available in end-stage liver diseases is still controversial (19,20). Reduced dietary intake is frequent and one of the main causes of malnutrition in patients with liver diseases; therefore, the early detection of malnutrition is crucial to proper nutritional guidance to these patients. For this reason, studies on this area still necessary. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to quantify the dietary intake and compare different nutritional assessment methods ABSTRACT Protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) is a prognostic factor increasing complications and mortality in chronic liver diseases. Objectives: To quantify the dietary intake and compare different methods of nutritional assessment in patients with chronic liver diseases. Ninety seven outpatients of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, with chronic hepatits (CH) and cirrhosis (CIR), were assessed from April 2009 to January 2010. The CH patients presented higher calorie and protein intake (p<0.05) than the CIR patients.