The dominant role of driver behavior in traffic safety.

Evans, Leonard

doi:10.2105/ajph.86.6.784

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“…31,32 Although it could be argued that driving on the road is very different compared to a simulator, the simulator kept the environmental factors that result in traffic accidents as constant allowing us to study human factors in greater detail. 33 One limitation of our study was the use of a driving simulator without a vestibular input, since it has been shown that vestibular input could also guide navigation and driving. 34 The number connection test (NCT) is the most widely used test in the psychometric assessment of cirrhotic patients.…”

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Driving Performance Among Patients with Cirrhosis Who Drove to Their Outpatient Hepatology Clinic Appointments

Thuluvath

Nuthalapati

Price

et al. 2016

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

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Background: Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) may adversely affect driving skills. Aims: To compare the driving performance of cirrhotic patients with and without prior HE as well as controls using a driving stimulator and to correlate psychometric testing with driving performance. Methods: Adult patients with cirrhosis, who drove to the outpatient clinic for their routine appointments underwent a battery of driving and psychometric tests including number connection tests A & B (NCT-A and NCT-B), digit symbol test (DST) and critical flicker and fusion frequency (CFF) testing. Results: Cirrhotics had significantly higher NCT-A (39.3 s vs. 31.2 s, P = 0.006) and DST scores (317 s vs. 245 s, P = 0.012), and lower CFF scores Fusion (33 vs. 36 Hz, P = 0.05), Flicker (35 vs. 42 Hz, P = 0.007) than controls. There was no difference in NCT-A, DST and CFF scores between patients with and without HE. Ten (22%) patients, 7 (27%) with prior HE and 3 (15%) without prior HE, had abnormal NCT-A scores (i.e. >control mean AE 2SD), and 12% of patients with prior HE had one or more driving test accidents, while controls and patients without prior HE had none. Patients with cirrhosis were more likely to hit pedestrians compared to controls (P = 0.05). There was no correlation between CFF, DST and NCTB scores with driving performance test results. Conclusions: Unlike previous reports, no significant differences were noted between the patients with and without prior HE on psychometric testing, and on the driving simulator, but driving accidents were seen in only those with previous history of HE. ( J CLIN EXP HEPATOL 2016;6:3-9)

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Driving Performance Among Patients with Cirrhosis Who Drove to Their Outpatient Hepatology Clinic Appointments

Thuluvath

Nuthalapati

Price

et al. 2016

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

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“…In nearly all cases involving a vehicular cause, the issue was vehicle maintenance problem, such as bald tires or worn brake linings. The road user was identified as a sole or contributing factor in 95% of crashes in the UK study and in 94% of crashes in the US study (Evans 1996). Table 1 summarises the findings of some other studies that investigated the involvement of human error in accident causation around the world.…”

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Car Driver Attitude towards Road Safety Measures

Yahia¹,

Safinia²,

Musharfi³

et al. 2017

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“…and traffic accident involvement 3,4 . Different studies have shown that risky driving behavior plays a major role in the occurrence of road traffic accident 5,6,7,8,9,10,11 . …”

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