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The use of the cognitive test battery Nordic Stroke Driver Screening Assessment
(NorSDSA) has increased, sometimes as a stand-alone test to evaluate fitness to
drive, also for non-stroke patients such as patients suffering from cognitive
deficits/dementia, approaches that may be questioned. The objective of the study
was to determine whether the NorSDSA could predict an on-road test result, for
large sets of stroke (n=74) and cognitive deficits/dementia participants (n=116),
respectively. The percentage of correctly classified was 62% for the stroke group
and 50% for the cognitive deficits/dementia group. A discriminant analysis with
pass/fail on the on-road test as grouping variable could classify 62% of the
stroke participants and the cognitive deficit/dementia participants. Hence, the
NorSDSA could not predict the outcome of the on-road test. Therefore, NorSDSA
should not be used as a stand-alone test to determine the fitness to drive of
individual participants. Also, its use with participants suffering from cognitive
deficits/dementia appears to be less successful than for clients with stroke.

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