Use of Driving Tests to Evaluate Patient Performance on Oral Opioids
Active, not recruitingNCT00659035
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Many patients seen at Pain Centers are advised not to drive if they are on long-term opioid medications. Although such advice is routinely given considering patients' safety, unnecessary restrictions to driving can cause inconvenience to the patients and delay their treatment. Such restrictions also pose social and legal questions to patients and physicians. The investigators would like to test such patients' ability to drive under oral opioids using a driving simulator at the Pain Center. This simulator is like a video game with computer and a steering wheel to simulate real life driving. The driving simulator provides measure on several outcome measures, such as attention, reaction time, etc. allowing us to specifically address question pertaining to any cognitive or behavioral differences.
Study details
- Official title
- Use of Driving Tests to Evaluate Patient Performance on Oral Opioids
- Conditions
- Sponsor
- Asokumar Buvanendran
- Organization
- Rush University Medical Center
- Start date
- 2008-04
- Primary completion
- 2026-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Driving license Exclusion Criteria: * Any other drug or condition that would impair driving ability * History of seizures
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00659035