Benefits of short educational programmes in preventing drink-driving recidivism: A ten-year follow-up randomised controlled trial.

Background: One fifth of drivers convicted of drink-driving for the first time will be convicted again for the same offence in subsequent years. Lecture-based educational programmes are believed to reduce recidivism. Little is known about the modalities of enhancing the benefits of such programs.

[Fitness to drive: which assessment by doctors in 2008?].

Medical problems related to car driving are more and more complex and frequent. In the most areas of Switzerland each doctor can be asked to assess the fitness to drive of his patients. Several guidelines from medical societies have been published recently in Switzerland.