Fast Alcohol Screening Tool (FAST)

The Fast Alcohol Screening Tool (FAST) is a quick alcohol harm assessment tool. The score for hazardous drinking is 3 or more.

Accessing the Fast Alcohol Screening Tool (FAST)

  1. From Consultation Manager, select Vision+ from the floating toolbar and select Calculators - Lifestyle - FAST Alcohol:

  2. The Fast Alcohol Screening Tool (FAST) displays:

  3. Complete the questionnaire by selecting an option next to each question:

    On completion the Clinical term, Event Date and Score automatically display at the base of the screen.

  4. Select OK to record the score or OK and Attach to also record the questionnaire:

  5.  The appropriate clinical term saves to the patient's record:

  6. To view an attachment, from patient's record, right click on the attachment entry and select View Attachment. The attachment displays as a PDF:

Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.