Radiation Exposure Assessment for Epidemiologic Studies

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• Personal Author:
  Daniels, Robert D.
• Description:
  Retrospective dose assessment is required for radioepidemiologic studies conducted at the National Insitute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Specific examples of dose reconstruction methods are presented from recent epidemiologic studies of nuclear workers employed at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS). Examples of adjusting for bias and uncertainties resulting from administrative overestimates, exposures from former employment, and measurement error are examined. Estimates of annual, cumulative, and collective doses are used to examine typical dose distributions and to facilitate dose-response analyses. Work-related medical exposures were also investigated as a potential source of bias. Work-related chest x rays (WRX) can result in a significant fraction of total dose, especially for radiation workers who were more likely to be subjected to routine medical monitoring. Omission of WRX from the total dose category misclassification and may skew the epidemiologic dose-response assessment for cancers induced by the workplace. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Neoplasms Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Radiography Safety
• Keywords:
  Cancer Chest-X-rays Dose-response Exposure-assessment Exposure-levels Nuclear-radiation Occupational-exposure Radiation-exposure Workers
• ISSN:
  0017-9078
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  89
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028195
• Citation:
  Health Phys 2005 Jul; 89(1)(Suppl S):S61
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Health Physics
• Supplement:
  S
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ed3a23aa2a019e612658d784d760ed8ab9c55f7ffceb732cbe31e951fe910b2e5e3b9734d99f757aca84d2e998ff3816587baee025649a8583ee1fa81c163a0e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189812/cdc_189812_DS1.pdf
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