Galen eCalcs - Calculator: CAGE Alcohol Screening

Description

The CAGE Alcohol Screening tool is utilized to identify alcoholism.

Calculator Search/Filter Keywords

At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching. The following calculator keywords are delivered by default for the CAGE Alcohol Screening calculator:

Specialties

Anesthesiology
Cardiology
Critical Care
Family Practice
Gastroenterology
Gerontology
Internal Medicine
Obstetrics
Pain Management
Psychiatry
Sleep Medicine
Surgery
Toxicology

Systems

Nervous

Calculator Configuration Options

Preference Name	Valid Range	Description
Publishing	Checked / Unchecked	When checked, the calculator will display for users on the front end. When unchecked, the calculator WILL NOT display for users on the front end.
Orderable Item Override	(BLANK) / G-CAGE	“(BLANK)” indicates that the global configuration options for Orderable Item will be used. “G-CAGE” indicates that the calculator specific value will be used and can display the specific calculator name in the chart output.
Save Discrete Results	True/False	When True, saves the questions and results of the calculator discretely when saving the results of the calculator.
Verification Required	True/False	When True, files the calculator output as requiring verification by generating a verification task.

Calculator Inputs

Input	Mapping Type	Description
Have you ever felt you should cut down your drinking?	Result	Does the patient feels he/she should cut down on drinking
Have people annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?	Result	Does the patient feel annoyed when criticized about drinking
Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking?	Result	Does the patient ever feel bad or guilty about drinking
Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or get rid of a hangover?	Result	Does the patient drink first thing in the morning to steady nerves or get rid of a hangover

Calculator Outputs

Output	Mapping Type	Description
CAGE Score	Result	CAGE alcohol screening test score

Quality Measures

Measure Category	Measure Type	Measure
MIPS	PQRS	367, 431

References

http://www.healthyplace.com/psychological-tests/cage-alcohol-screening-test/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAGE_questionnaire