Neurologic Conditions: Assessing Medical Fitness to Drive

Neurologic conditions: assessing medical fitness to drive.

Clinicians are often asked to make an assessment on whether a patient is medically fit to drive, even though few have been formally trained in this area. Driving is a complex task that requires having adequate operational, cognitive and higher executive functions that work together. These functions can be compromised to a greater or lesser extent in neurological disorders, such as stroke, traum...

Medical aspects of fitness to drive.

The paper considers the question of fitness to drive after the use of anaesthetics and other drugs and makes suggestions concerning the advice which anaesthetists should give to patients beofre an anaesthetic is administered.

Approach to assessing fitness to drive in patients with cardiac and cognitive conditions.

OBJECTIVE To help physicians become more comfortable assessing the fitness to drive of patients with complex cardiac and cognitive conditions. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE The approach described is based on the authors' clinical practices, recommendations from the Third Canadian Consensus Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, and guidelines from the 2003 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Co...

Are medical reports on fitness to drive trustworthy?

PURPOSE Previous studies have shown that physicians often have poor knowledge of the medical restriction on fitness to drive, or submit poor quality medical reports. To determine the reliability of physicians' reports on fitness to drive, the medical data provided on the standard medical fitness form was compared with the additional data collected on repeated assessment. METHODS A random samp...

Medical aspects of fitness to drive. Assessments should be independent.