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1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Pooled Cohort of US Nuclear Workers and INWORKS
Country
 
  • United States
Name
  Please contact NIOSH by submitting the attached form. Please contact NIOSH by submitting the attached form.
Email
  bic4@cdc.gov
Website
 
  • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radiation-workers-and-their-health-national-study/inworks-collaborative-study-using-nrrw-data
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Participation in pooled analyses
 
  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  To study the associations between nuclear workers' exposure to ionizing radiation and cancer.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Retrospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • General population: National
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 
Minimum Maximum Mean
30
Men at last follow-up
  95,833
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Disease incidence records
Disease incidence records (specify)
 
  • National Death Index
  • Social Security Death Master File
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Job-employment records
  • Environmental samples
Occupational history/time frame
  Follow-up period
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Data modelling
Main categories
 
  • Other (specify)
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 
  • Death certificates
  • Medical records
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 
  • Death certificates
  • Medical records
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Mortality
6. Other Information
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 
  • Mortality register