The study’s implications include the need for physicians to advise patients with insomnia or females with sleep apnea to use caution while driving without “exaggerating risks that introduce undue fear to patients with other sleep disorders and thereby limiting mobility unnecessarily,” the authors wrote. The researchers also suggested that employers consider providing alternative transportation to shift workers and/or that insurance companies offer employers lower rates for offering such alternatives.
SOURCE: Liu Shu-Yuan et al. Sleep J. 2018 Apr 1. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsy023.