Through our questionnaires, we often ask patients about their alcohol intake. As well as our general questionnaire, we also send an alcohol intake questionnaire to patients due an LFT for whom we don't have recent data.
The question generally appears like this and advises the patient to cut down if they're drinking more than 14 units/week:
Following up raised alcohol intake
Whether this is submitted from a questionnaire or recorded in a consultation, if no further alcohol advice has been coded, patients can be sent a full audit-C questionnaire.
Based on their answers to that questionnaire, they can then be sent further information and advice tailored to the outcome.
This can be done as a manual process using these reports and the presets they reference:
Alternatively, this can be automated for your practice so that the messages will be sent as appropriate whenever someone is in one of these records. Let us know if you would like this enabling for your practice.
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