AUDIT Calculator

Overview

The purpose of the AUDIT calculator is to assess the patient’s current level of drinking and identify the patient’s risk of harm from alcohol consumption. It is often used as a follow-up to the AUDIT C calculator to more comprehensively assess the patient’s drinking.

Technical Specification

The AUDIT calculator is valid for all patients.

The calculator displays the ten questions required and the user indicates the answers given by the patient. Each answer is assigned a score.

Question	Score 0	Score 1	Score 2	Score 3	Score 4

Question	Score 0	Score 1	Score 2	Score 3	Score 4
How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?	Never	Monthly or less	2 to 4 times per month	2 to 3 times per week	4 or more times per week
How many units of alcohol do you drink on a typical day when you are drinking?	0 to 2	3 to 4	5 to 6	7 to 9	10 or more
How often have you had 6 or more units if female, or 8 or more if male, on a single occasion in the last year?	Never	Less than monthly	Monthly	Weekly	Daily or almost daily
How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started?	Never	Less than monthly	Monthly	Weekly	Daily or almost daily
How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of your drinking?	Never	Less than monthly	Monthly	Weekly	Daily or almost daily
How often during the last year have you needed an alcoholic drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?	Never	Less than monthly	Monthly	Weekly	Daily or almost daily
How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?	Never	Less than monthly	Monthly	Weekly	Daily or almost daily
How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking?	Never	Less than monthly	Monthly	Weekly	Daily or almost daily
Have you or somebody else been injured as a result of your drinking?	No		Yes but not in the last year		Yes during the last year
Has a relative or friend, doctor or other health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested that you cut down?	No		Yes but not in the last year		Yes during the last year

The calculator outputs a code with the value of the AUDIT risk of harm from alcohol.

Scoring:

● 0 to 7 indicates low risk

● 8 to 15 indicates increasing risk

● 16 to 19 indicates higher risk

● 20 or more indicates possible dependence