Accounting for Errors in Radiation Dose Estimates

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• Personal Author:
  Fix JJ ; Gilbert ES
• Description:
  An approach for quantifying biases and uncertainties in external dose measurements was developed, focusing on the kind of information needed for adjustment of epidemiologic dose response analyses. The approach evaluated biases and uncertainties in external dose estimates from each of several sources and combined them to obtain an overall assessment. An approach was developed and implemented for accounting for uncertainty in systemic bias in recorded external doses. The approach made it possible to account for a potentially important type of exposure uncertainty. The methods could be applied to any study where quantitative risk estimates expressed per unit of exposure are of interest. A model for uncertainties resulting from random variation in laboratory measurements and an approach for accounting for random uncertainties in estimates of cumulative external dose used in nuclear worker studies were developed. These were applied to dose response analyses based on Hanford worker radiation exposure data. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Keywords:
  Grants-other Information-processing Ionizing-radiation; NIOSH-Grant Nuclear-radiation Occupational-exposure Radiation-exposure Statistical-analysis
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00238191
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-206346
• Citation:
  Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington 1996 Dec; :1-4
• Contact Point Address:
  Health Risk Assessment Dept Battelle Memorial Inst PO Box 999 Msin P7 82 Richland, WA 99352
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19940930
• Source Full Name:
  Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington
• End Date:
  19960929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ac87ecd053c75ea82a0ca0bd32b8f61d40d514454dfd8ebc37a8be2df828d7dbf165b68cac5234541b974a2273dc326d15f2d347f4a3ee8ced5193dff65b47fb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217919/cdc_217919_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 230.17 KB ]