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Epidemiologic Studies

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Study Documentation

Study Records, 1958, [1980]-1983

Location:

Active:
Inactive: LANL, Technical Area 59, Room 209, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of Records

Volume: 4 lin. ft.

Accession or Other ID Number: None

Condition: Good

Container Number: Cabinet 3, Shelves 4-6

Medium: Paper

Scanning Suitability: Series includes faded records.

Duplication: Unknown

Arrangement: Coding sheets are alphabetical, and remaining material is unarranged.

Originating Office: LANL, Occupational Medicine Group, Epidemiology

Finding Aids: Shelf list

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

Series Description: This series consists of four main subseries. The first subseries contains data used to prepare the Rocky Flats Brain Cancer Study databases. It includes a list of employees submitted to the Social Security Administration to ascertain vital status, statistics on mortality by occupation, medical records for employees who died of brain tumors, a list of external exposure and body burden rates for individual employees, dosimetry records for two employees, and a folder of employee health histories. Also included in this subseries are selection data for the controls.

The second subseries consists of materials related to the database software. It includes coding and recoding instructions and coding sheets for deceased, random, and matched controls.

The third subseries consists of computer-generated reports of database searches and data compilations, and statistical analyses. Included in this subseries are calculations and analyses comparing the controls (deceased, random, and matched) and rate ratios for white males at Rocky Flats.

The fourth subseries consists of reports, memoranda, and reference material associated with the study. It contains information concerning diagnostic sensitivity bias in relation to the Rocky Flats Brain Cancer Study, drafts of the study, review requests, and review comments.

Data Elements: 7-8, 11-21, 23-26, 28, 31, 33, 35, 42-43, 45, 47, 53-56, 58, 62, 117

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