NCT00659035Active, not recruiting
Use of Driving Tests to Evaluate Patient Performance on Oral Opioids
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 450 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 30 Jan 2008
- Start date
- Apr 2008
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Asokumar Buvanendran
- NCT number
- NCT00659035
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 450
- From Apr 2008 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Any other drug or condition that would impair driving ability
- History of seizures
Who the study is looking for
- Driving license
Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rush University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
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