50 Years of the Radiation Exposure Information and Reporting System

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

“…Cohort identification relies upon previously conducted studies [36] and the availability of central dosimetry repositories [6] , [40] , [45] , [46] , [47] , [48] , [49] , [50] . Vital status determination and cause of death are obtained following a multistage approach with multiple sources of information that include state maintained vital statistics files and national databases of the Social Security Administration Death Master File (SSA-DMF), the National Death Index (NDI) and the SSA Service for Epidemiological Researchers (SSA-SER), along with publicly available data, ancestry services, and death certificates [51] .…”

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

“…focusing on the importance of this "registry" of radiation workers to the MPS(Hagemeyer et al 2018). The Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) was created in 1990 to allow researchers to access data from the U.S. DOE epidemiological studies program(US DOE 2020).…”