Medications and traffic accidents involving older drivers: do Spanish primary healthcare physicians know enough?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our aim was to evaluate Spanish family doctors' knowledge about medications that increase the risk of traffic accidents involving older drivers, and to obtain data about the involvement of family doctors in accident prevention activities and the associations between these factors and their demographic and workplace characteristics.

Methods

A cross-sectional study of 1888 family doctors throughout Spain was carried out from 2016 to 2018. Participants completed a previously validated self-administered questionnaire that explored whether family doctors distinguished between medications associated with a high or low risk of involvement in a traffic accident, investigated the appropriateness of advice given to older patients, and physicians' involvement in preventive a

SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Mejias E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10583376 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature