You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing and what you can do to make your experience on this site better.


ABOUT ARCHIVES
Advanced Search

Welcome   | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In


  Vol. 111 No. 2, February 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Archives
  •  Online Features
  ARTICLE
 This Article
 • Reply to article
 •Send to a friend
 • Save in My Folder
 •Save to citation manager
 •Permissions
 Citing Articles
 •Citation map
 •Citing articles on HighWire
 •Contact me when this article is cited
 Related Content
 •Similar articles in this journal

Evaluation of driving performance in patients with juvenile macular dystrophies

J. P. Szlyk, G. A. Fishman, K. Severing, K. R. Alexander and M. Viana
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine.

The driving performance of 20 subjects with central vision impairment due to either Stargardt disease or cone-rod dystrophy (visual acuity, 20/40 to 20/70) was compared with that of 29 control subjects with normal vision who had similar driving histories. Driving performance was defined by accident involvement based on self-report and state records and by an evaluation of performance on an interactive driving simulator. The proportion of individuals involved in accidents in the central vision loss group was comparable to that of the control group. For 13 of the 20 subjects with central vision loss who did not restrict their driving to daylight hours, there was a greater likelihood of involvement in nighttime accidents than in the control group. Visual function measures and simulator indexes did not predict accident involvement for the central visual loss group, although these subjects showed longer braking response times and a greater number of lane boundary crossings than the control group. These findings are in contrast to our previously published report of subjects with retinitis pigmentosa, who were more likely to have been involved in both daytime and nighttime accidents than a control group and for whom visual field extent was significantly related to accident involvement.

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

A Prospective, Population-Based Study of the Role of Visual Impairment in Motor Vehicle Crashes among Older Drivers: The SEE Study
Rubin et al.
IOVS 2007;48:1483-1491.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Risk of Falls and Motor Vehicle Collisions in Glaucoma
Haymes et al.
IOVS 2007;48:1149-1155.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Measures of Visual Function and Their Association with Driving Modification in Older Adults
Freeman et al.
IOVS 2006;47:514-520.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Eyes, Brains, and Autos
Rizzo and Kellison
Arch Ophthalmol 2004;122:641-647.
FULL TEXT  

The Effect of Visual Field Defects on Driving Performance: A Driving Simulator Study
Coeckelbergh et al.
Arch Ophthalmol 2002;120:1509-1516.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  





HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | SUBMIT | SUBSCRIBE | HELP
CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP
 
© 1993 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.