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title: Alcohol Use (AUDIT-C) Questionnaire
description: How the AUDIT-C Questionnaire appears to patients, which SNOMED codes are saved to the EHR, and how to enable the relevant monitoring rules in the User Management Portal.
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# Alcohol Use (AUDIT-C) Questionnaire

## 🔍How it appears to patients?

**![](https://help.abtrace.co/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-07-2025-05-33-11-6255-PM.png?width=670&height=473&name=image-png-Nov-07-2025-05-33-11-6255-PM.png)**

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**📋SNOMED codes saved to EHR**

- AUDIT-C - Consumption score (observable entity) - 763256006
- AUDIT-C score (observable entity) - 443280005
- AUDIT-C Decline code - 922471000000101

**⚙️ Associated Monitoring Rules**

To use the AUDIT-C Questionnaire effectively, the relevant **monitoring rules** associated with Weight as a task must be enabled. To enable the monitoring rules:

1. Go to the **User Management Portal**.
2. Navigate using the left-hand panel to **Rules Management**.
3. Search for **"AUDIT-C"**.
4. ✅ Enable the rules that will allow you to identify patients whose Alcohol consumption you’d like to monitor.

**🔍 How the AUDIT-C Score is calculated**

Each question will be assigned a score based on the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) below. The AUDIT-C consumption score is calculated as the sum of the three scores.

![](https://help.abtrace.co/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Mar-03-2026-04-40-17-0631-PM.png?width=1337&height=591&name=image-png-Mar-03-2026-04-40-17-0631-PM.png)

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