IS AN APPLICATION FORM USEFUL TO SELECT PATENTS WITH EPILEPSY WHO MAY DRIVE?

Of 1,268 persons who claimed to have epilepsy and were therefore disqualified for military service, 55% had a driving license 5 years later. Only 58% had applied for a driving license. Of those 14% who had answered truthfully the question "have you had fits, epilepsy etc." in the appication form, 63% received a license. Fewer persons with epilepsy had a driving license after about 5 years (55%) than did age-matched controls (73%). The application form is of no use in preventing persons with epilepsy from obtaining a driving license. Adequate instruction of the patient and of his physician is to be preferred to the use of an application form.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  International League Against Epilepsy

  Elsevier Publishing Company, Box 211
  Amsterdam,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • van der Lugt, PJM
• Publication Date: 1975-12

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 743-746
• Serial:
  • Epilepsia
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Limited
  • ISSN: 0013-9580
  • EISSN: 1528-1167
  • Serial URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15281167

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Driver licenses; Epilepsy; Patients; Physical disabilities
• Old TRIS Terms: Medical disability
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00144412
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1977 12:00AM