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    "pk": 17838,
    "title": "Older Emergency Department Drivers: Patterns, Behaviors, and Willingness to Enroll in a Safe Driver Program",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Objective: Our objective was to assess the reported driving patterns of older emergency department (ED) drivers and the factors that might lead them to enroll in a safe driving program.\n\n\nMethods: We conducted a prospective, cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of ED patients 65-years-old and up regarding their driving patterns, behaviors and willingness to enroll in a safe driving program.\n\n\nResults: We surveyed 138 patients. Most (73%) reported driving within the last year, and 88% of these believe they could not manage without driving. Eleven percent of ED older drivers have been in a motor vehicle crash (MVC) in the past year (95% CI 6-20%), compared to 2.5% of all seniors. Our survey findings suggest that 88% of older ED drivers avoid at least some high-risk driving situations and 65% are unwilling to enroll in a safe driver program unless it lowers their automobile insurance rates. At the same time, most older ED drivers underestimate their risk of being involved in (75%) or dying from (74%) a MVC.\n\n\nConclusion: Overall, there are a significant number of older people for whom driving remains a vital yet risky daily function. Most of these drivers have little interest in information regarding safe driving programs while in the ED. Those willing to learn about such programs would prefer to take home the information regarding the program rather than have any staff member discuss it while in the ED. [West J Emerg Med. 2011;12(1):51-55.]",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Older driver"
        },
        {
            "word": "education"
        },
        {
            "word": "motor vehicle crash"
        },
        {
            "word": "Emergency Medicine"
        },
        {
            "word": "Preventative Medicine"
        },
        {
            "word": "Public Health Education and Promotion"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Geriatrics",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mq5t172",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kirk",
            "middle_name": "A",
            "last_name": "Stiffler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Summa Health System/Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Scott",
            "middle_name": "T",
            "last_name": "Wilber",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Summa Health System/Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2009-10-21T07:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2009-10-21T07:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2011-03-23T07:00:00Z",
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}