DRUGS AND TRAFFIC SAFETY: WHAT ABOUT PATIENT PACKAGE INSERTS?
The number of motorists who drive under the influence of drugs is difficult to calculate. The influence of a prescription drug can have a positive or a negative impact on driver fitness. This may be caused either by the intended therapeutic effect or the undesired side-effects. Before each trip, the patient must therefore check whether, having taken a drug, he or she is still fit to drive. From a traffic-medicine standpoint, the directions for use of the drug, especially the warning referring to driving a vehicle or operating machinery, may play an important role in explaining to the patient the potentially impairing effect a drug may have on driving fitness. In the research represented here, this warning is denoted as a "traffic warning." This paper aims to describe the extent to which statutory regulations regarding medication traffic warnings exist at both the national (Germany) and European level.
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Authors:
- BECKER, S
- FRIEDEL, B
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Conference:
- Traffic Safety on Two Continents
- Location: Malmo, Sweden
- Date: 1999-9-20 to 1999-9-22
- Publication Date: 2000
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 201-216
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Serial:
- Publication of: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute
- Publisher: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- ISSN: 0347-6030
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobile driving; Conferences; Drug effects; Highway transportation; Human factors in crashes; Medication; Medicine; Regulations; Traffic safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Product warnings (medication)
- Geographic Terms: Europe; Germany
- Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00797572
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: VTI konferens 13A, Part 2
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 2 2000 12:00AM