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
• 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
• 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