Driving safety in Parkinson's disease.
In this study, 39 patients with PD and 25 control subjects without neurologic disease completed testing in a driving simulator. PD patients had more total collisions on the driving simulator than control subjects (t = -3.7, p < 0.01). In PD patients, collisions were associated with Hoehn and Yahr stage (chi(2) = 12.4, p = 0.006) and correlated with Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale score (r = 0.5, p < 0.01).
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Department of Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. tzesiewi@hsc.usf.edu
Cimino
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Malek
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Gardner
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Leaverton
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Dunne
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Hauser
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D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012449:Safety