For clinicians
The same calculator without the patient explanations: a line ready to paste into the record, a PDF to attach and a print layout for the consulting room.
This is the same calculator without the patient explanations. It gives a line to paste into EMIS or SystmOne, a PDF to attach with your own reference, a print layout, and years smoked and the date stopped alongside pack years. Never enter a patient’s name or NHS number.
The FAQs make the case for recording more than pack years: “starting and stopping dates, smoking duration in years and smoking pack years should be recorded for each patient so that smoking exposure risks can be taken into account when patients present with symptoms of disease.” The calculator asks for the date stopped and the total years smoked as well.
For practices and screening services
Paste this code into a page on your website to show the calculator there. It resizes itself to fit. Nothing is stored and no tracking cookies are set in the embedded version.
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<script>window.addEventListener("message",function(e){if(e.origin==="https://www.smokingpackyears.com"&&e.data&&e.data.type==="spy-height"){document.getElementById("spy-calculator").style.height=e.data.height+"px";}});</script>Or link to it: www.smokingpackyears.com/clinicians/ for clinicians, or the home page for patients. A version of the calculator on its own: www.smokingpackyears.com/embed/.
Masters NJ, Tutt C. Smoking pack years calculator, version 2.0 [online]. Available at: https://www.smokingpackyears.com/ (accessed date).
Pack years (with the unrounded figure when it differs), each type of tobacco with its amount and years, whether the patient still smokes or when they stopped, years smoked, your reference, and the date, method and calculator version. Paste it into EMIS or SystmOne.
No. Add your own reference if you need one, but never a patient’s name or NHS number. What the calculator stores explains what happens to the answers.
The FAQs recommend that “starting and stopping dates, smoking duration in years and smoking pack years should be recorded for each patient”. Pack years and years smoked explains why.
Yes. Paste the code above into a page on your website; it resizes itself to fit. Nothing is stored and no tracking cookies are set in the embedded version.
Masters NJ, Tutt C. Smoking pack years calculator, version 2.0 [online]. Available at: https://www.smokingpackyears.com/ (accessed date). Using the calculator in research covers the method and its limits.
Who is invited to an NHS lung health check, and how the decision to offer a scan is made.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about the smoking pack years calculator feel free to contact Dr Nigel Masters or Catherine Tutt.
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