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Epilepsy and driving in North Carolina: An exploratory study

โœ Scribed by Carol Lederhaus Popkin; Patricia Fossum Waller

Book ID
102617866
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
497 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0001-4575

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โœฆ Synopsis

Epileptic drivers offer a risk to the general driving population, both because of affected brain function and because of possible effects of medication. A 1982 pilot study examined the driving records of 112 persons using North Carolina Division of Health Services clinics for the treatment of epilepsy who also held a North Carolina driver's license. Of those undergoing treatment in the clinics, 26% were known by the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to be epileptics. This group had a reported crash rate 1.4 times that of the general driving population, whereas the rate for epileptics not known to the DMV was I. 1 times the general rate. Epileptics with grand mal and temporal or psychomotor seizures accounted for all recorded crashes. Implications for highway safety administrators and for future research are discussed.

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