Minor tranquillisers and road accidents.

Journal article

In a prospective study of 43,117 people, prescriptions issued by general practitioners over two years were linked with records of hospital admissions and deaths. For 57 people injured or killed while driving cars, motorcycles, or bicycles the medicines that had been dispensed in the three months before were compared with those dispensed for 1,425 matched controls. There was a highly significant association between use of minor tranquillisers and the risk of a serious road accident (relative r...

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Authors: Skegg, D; Richards, S; Doll, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: British medical journal
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 6168
• Pages: 917-919
• Publication date: 1979-04-01
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6168.917
• EISSN: 1468-5833
• ISSN: 0007-1447
• Language: English
• Keywords: Accidents, Traffic; Risk; Diazepam; Histamine H1 Antagonists; Aged; Anti-Anxiety Agents; Humans; Prospective Studies; Adult; Female; Middle Aged; Adolescent; Wounds and Injuries; Male