Multidisciplinary Assessment and Reporting of Fitness to Drive in Brain Tumor Patients: A Gray Matter

Assessing Fitness to Drive in Brain Tumour Patients: A Grey Matter of Law, Ethics, and Medicine

“…Another potential weakness of our study is that it examined only hospital records when, in fact, a driving assessment might have been performed or a report submitted by the family physician in the community. However, our research group previously conducted a multidisciplinary survey of specialists and family physicians caring for brain tumour patients and found that, compared with specialists, family doctors were even less comfortable with reporting, less likely to consider reporting, less likely to have patients inquire about driving, and less likely to engage in a discussion about safe driving 15 . Finally, given the retrospective nature of the present study, it was difficult to ascertain the driving status of patients at the time of disease presentation or whether other factors such as comorbidities or medication use deterred a physician from discussing driving ability or submitting a report.…”