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Use of Driving Tests to Evaluate Patient Performance on Oral Opioids

NCT00659035 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 450

Last updated 2026-01-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Asokumar Buvanendran

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Asokumar Buvanendran, MD · Rush University Medical Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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