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Records Series Descriptions
Oak Ridge Sites
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Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) SERIES TITLE Patient and Radioisotope Logbooks INCLUSIVE DATES 1950 1986 ARRANGEMENT Record type VOLUME 3 cubic feet DESCRIPTION Included here are summaries of ORAU patient treatments as well as of ORAU receipt and/or use of radiation sources. Present is a set of patient registry logs that provide patient name, admission date, chart number, sex, age, address, and referring physician/university. For the ca. 1977 1986 period, the registries cover outpatients only. No information regarding medical condition or treatment is provided. Separate logs detail various uses of internal and external radiation. Included are logs for applications of gallium, carbon-11, valine, tryptophan, lanthanum, iodine-131, phosphorous-32, and other substances. These records generally include protocols and patient information such as name, date of admission and of procedure, diagnosis, dosage, and results. Logs for linear and other total body scans include similar information. RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material. LOCATION OF RECORDS Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Medical Sciences Division 140 East Vance Road, Room 202A Oak Ridge, TN 37830 |