Overview
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).
Description
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.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Case reported in the World Health Organization (WHO) database of individual safety case reports to 01/03/2020
- Adverse events reported were including the MedDRA terms: Road Traffic Accident (SMQ)
- Patients treated with at least one liable nervous system drugs (ATC class N) or that can induce cognitive and pyschomotor undesirable effects by crossing the blood-brain barrier (ATC class A04, C02A, L)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Chronology not compatible between the drug and the road traffic accident