Drugs responsible for cognitive and psychomotor side effects may lead to impaired driving skills and road traffic accidents. This study investigates reports of road traffic accident for different class of drugs responsible for cognitive and psychomotor sides effects (pyschotropic agents, neurotropic agents, antineoplasic agents) in the World Health Organization's (WHO) global database of individual safety case reports (VigiBase).
Some medications are responsible of a wide range of cognitive and psychomotor side effects that may make it unsafe to drive and lead to risks of road accidents .The investigators use VigiBase, the World Health Organization (WHO) database of individual safety case reports, to identify cases of road traffic accidents following treatment with different class of drugs responsible for pyschomotor sides effects.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
500,000
identification of road traffic accidents associated with drugs responsible for psychomotor side effects
Caen University Hospital, Department of Pharmacology
Caen, Normandy, France
RECRUITINGAssociation between drugs responsible for cognitive and psychomotor side effects and road traffic accidents cases
Identification of cases with association between each individual of different class of drugs responsible for cognitive ans psychomotor side effects and road traffic accidents cases
Time frame: Case reported in the World Health Organization (WHO) of individual safety case reports to March 2020
Association between two drugs of the same class, leading to an over-reporting of road traffic accidents
Association between two drugs in the different class studied and road traffic accidents cases to search for a potential interaction between two drugs of the same class, leading to an over-reporting of road traffic accidents
Time frame: Case reported in the World Health Organization (WHO) of individual safety case reports to March 2020
Description of the population of patients having a road traffic accident related to taking medication
Identification of the population criteria (age, sex ...) having road accidents related to certain classes of drugs
Time frame: Case reported in the World Health Organization (WHO) of individual safety case reports to March 2020
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