TY - JOUR T1 - Factors that affect simulated driving in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00074-2015 VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 00074-2015 AU - Dipansu Ghosh AU - Samantha L. Jamson AU - Paul D. Baxter AU - Mark W. Elliott Y1 - 2015/10/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/1/2/00074-2015.abstract N2 - Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) are at increased risk of involvement in road traffic accidents (RTAs) [1]. Clinicians diagnosing OSAS need to advise patients about driving but there are no validated tools and no robust objective data about which factors are important [2]. There are position statements, based solely on expert opinion, from various professional bodies [3–6]. In general, they conclude that a patient with significant daytime sleepiness and a recent RTA or near miss attributable to sleepiness, fatigue or inattention, should be considered a high-risk driver [3–6]. In a recent survey using clinical vignettes, we have shown that there is considerable variability in the advice that patients are likely to receive [7]. This indicates that clinicians require more robust guidance.Objective data for advising sleep apnoea sufferers whether they are at increased risk of an accident when driving http://ow.ly/TWPgmWe are grateful to Michael Daly, Tony Horrobin and Hamish Jamson from the Institute for Transport Studies (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) for their contribution to the development and running of the simulator. We are thankful to the contributions of research nurse Craig Armstrong, sleep physiologist Sue Watts, specialist nurses Martin Latham, Jampa Choedon, Mitchell Nix and Lisa Emmett, healthcare assistant Anne Kellett, research fellows Akshay Dwarakanath, Vinod Palissery and Audrey Rowe, and Susan Leigh from the Sleep Services administrative team (St James' University Hospital, Leeds, UK). ER -