title: Evaluation of on-road driving in people with hemianopia and quadrantanopia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether some drivers with hemianopia or quadrantanopia display safe driving skills on the road compared with drivers with normal visual fields.
  
  
  METHODS
  An occupational therapist evaluated 22 people with hemianopia, 8 with quadrantanopia, and 30 with normal vision for driving skills during naturalistic driving using six rating scales.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of drivers with normal vision, > 90% drove flawlessly or had minor errors. Although drivers with hemianopia were more likely to receive poorer ratings for all skills, 59.1%-81.8% performed with no or minor errors. A skill commonly problematic for them was lane keeping (40.9%). Of 8 drivers with quadrantanopia, 7 (87.5%) exhibited no or minor errors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study of people with hemianopia or quadrantanopia with no lateral spatial neglect highlights the need to provide individual opportunities for on-road driving evaluation under natural traffic conditions if a person is motivated to return to driving after brain injury.
authors.affiliation: Driving Assessment Clinic, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 700 South 18th Street, Suite 609, Birmingham, AL 35294-0009, USA. jenwells@uab.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Elgin
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: McGwin
authors.forename: Joanne M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Vaphiades
authors.forename: Ronald A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Braswell
authors.forename: Dawn K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: DeCarlo
authors.forename: Lanning B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Kline
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Owsley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001334:Automobile Driving; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006423:Hemianopsia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009048:Motor Skills; D014792:Visual Acuity