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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Oct 30;60(11):2056–2062. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04206.x

Table 2.

Group differences on the road test (RIRT) and naturalistic driving (CDAS).

Healthy
Controls
(n= 44)
Patients
(n=59)
t p-value
Road Test Error Score
mean (± SD)
0.04 (0.03) 0.08 (0.06) −4.20 <0.001
Global Safety Rating (RIRT, %)
 Pass (no recommendations) 56.82 20.34
 Pass (with recommendations) 29.55 32.20
 Marginal (with restrictions) 11.36 30.51
 Marginal (with training) 2.27 15.25
 Fail 0.00 1.69 <0.001
Naturalistic Driving Error Score
mean (± SD)
0.10 (0.08) 0.19 (0.13) −4.08 <0.001
Global Safety Rating (CDAS; %)
 Pass (no restrictions) 61.36 35.59
 Pass (with recommendations) 22.73 20.34
 Marginal (with restrictions) 13.64 20.34
 Marginal (with training) 2.27 16.95
 Fail 0.00 6.78 0.01
Naturalistic Driving Course Difficulty
mean (± SD)
5.80 (1.15) 5.68 (1.32) 0.47 0.64

RIRT = Rhode Island Road Test; CDAS = Composite Driving Assessment Scale.

Error scores reflect the average score on a 0-2 Likert scale (0=normal; 1-mildly impaired; 2-moderately-severely impaired.

Course difficulty was rated on a 10-point likert scale with 1=simple and 10=extremely challenging.