Visual Function and Fitness to Drive

Visual function and fitness to drive.

INTRODUCTION Driving is recognized to be a visually intensive task and accordingly there is a legal minimum standard of vision required for all motorists. The purpose of this paper is to review the current United Kingdom (UK) visual requirements for driving and discuss the evidence base behind these legal rules. The role of newer, alternative tests of visual function that may be better indicato...

Fitness to Drive and Cognition

Medication and fitness to drive.

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to analyze the consumption patterns of medicaments among motor vehicle drivers who attend 'Medical Driving Test Centres' and the relation between habitual consumption of medicaments and fitness to drive. METHODS The study was carried out on 8043 drivers who attended 25 Medical Driving Test Centres. RESULTS 24.7% of drivers chronically consume medicaments whi...

Fitness to drive.

Glaucoma and fitness to drive: using binocular visual fields to predict a milestone to blindness.

PURPOSE To use binocular integrated visual field (IVF) measures to predict which patients will lose visual function to a level below the legal standard for driving. METHODS Data from patients attending a glaucoma clinic were collected longitudinally. The time from baseline until failure to meet the criteria of the driver's license test was modeled with Cox regression. Visual field status at b...