Current licensing authority standards for peripheral visual field and safe on-road senior aged automobile driving performance

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 612-620

  Silveira, Sue ^a   Jolly, Neryla ^a   Heard, Robert ^a   Clunas, Nathan J ^a   Kay, Lynnette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Automobile driving; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVER; CAR DRIVING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER LICENCE; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PERIPHERAL VISION; PREDICTION; STANDARD; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LICENSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34848914061     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01544.x     Document Type: Article

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