Citation

Jiménez Mejías E, Martín de Los Reyes LM, Martínez Ruiz V. Semergen 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Vernacular Title

Eficacia de las intervenciones formativas sobre médicos de atención primaria en la prevención de accidentes de tráfico en ancianos.

Affiliation

Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España; Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España; Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (ibs.GRANADA), Granada, España.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.semerg.2019.01.005

PMID

30857896

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess the effect of the implementation of training programs for Primary Care Physicians for improving their clinical practice as regards the prevention of traffic accidents in the elderly. To do this, a systematic review was carried out following the PRISMA strategy. A total of 1,677 works were reviewed, of which only 5 were included because they met the inclusion criteria. Although none of the works was of an experimental type with a control group, it can be concluded that there is evidence that an adequate training in this subject by physicians improves their skills in the identification of elderly risk drivers, due to their pathologies and/or the use of drugs, as well as their level of confidence to communicate to the elderly and/or their families the need for restriction or, if necessary, the definitive cessation of driving.

Copyright © 2019 Sociedad Española de Médicos de Atención Primaria (SEMERGEN). Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

Accidentes de tráfico; Conductores ancianos; Elderly drivers; Médicos de familia; Prevención; Prevention; Primary care physicians; Traffic accidents