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A Study on Driving Status in 98 Epileptic Patients with Driving Licences
Author(s) -
Hashimoto Kazuaki,
Fukushima Yutaka,
Saito Fumio,
Wada Kazumaru
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1991.tb02480.x
Subject(s) - epilepsy , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , business , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , psychiatry , pathology
As to the driving status in the period between January 1984 and December 1988, 98 epileptic patients with driving licences were examined, paying regard to their clinical conditions. Sixty‐one (62%) of the patients were seizure‐free for the last five years or more in December 1988. Eighty‐one (83%) were actually driving motor vehicles at the time of this study, and 27 (33%) of the 81 drivers still had fits during the past five years. Nine patients (9%) had caused traffic accidents, but no accident had occurred due to seizures. The type of the nine accidents was as follows: One case of a slight physical injury to the other person, four cases of the driver's own car damage without other material damage, and four of the accidents involving other cars.