Historical perspective on the department of energy mortality studies: focus on the collection and storage of individual worker data

Misclassification of causes of death among a small all-autopsied group of former nuclear workers: Death certificates vs. autopsy reports

“…However, the quality of mortality data is also important. Former nuclear workers from Department of Energy facilities represent a major target population for US radiation epidemiological studies [26,27]. Since USTUR Registrants are former nuclear workers who worked similar jobs during similar time periods to those included in epidemiological studies, the under-and over-classification rates identified in this study can be used to investigate the impact of death certificate misclassification errors on radiation risk estimates.…”

Moon, Mars and Minds: Evaluating Parkinson’s disease mortality among U.S. radiation workers and veterans in the million person study of low-dose effects

“…The MPS is designed to evaluate the level of health effects (cancer and non-cancer outcomes) on workers who receive protracted, chronic occupational exposures [36] . These workers are defined by occupational or service groups and were exposed to radiation at varying times from 1913 to the present, including: workers involved in the Manhattan project and at nuclear facilities of the U.S. Department of Energy [37] , atomic veterans of the U.S. Department of Defense [38] , nuclear power plant workers [39] , industrial radiographers [6] , [40] , medical radiation workers [41] , nuclear submariners and other U.S. Navy personnel [6] , [42] , and radium dial workers [43] . The project is a U.S. national effort with active cooperation of several federal agencies for support [44] .…”

Introduction to the special issue on the US Million Person Study of health effects from low-level exposure to radiation

“…In addition, one article discusses the historical perspective of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) mortality studies with an emphasis on collection and storage of individual worker data (Ellis et al 2018) Articles within the 'Methods' section identify certain key epidemiologic methods utilized for the MPS, including the evaluation of statistical modeling approaches for such studies of lowlevel radiation health effects (Golden et al 2018), the essential methods of obtaining vital status and cause of death on a million persons (Mumma et al 2018b), and the validation of census data on education as a measure of socioeconomic status (Cohen et al 2018). A fourth article in this section provides a profile for a pilot sub-cohort of a multicenter medical radiation worker component of the MPS, including early worker data prior to the 1960s (Dauer et al 2019).…”