Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test

J. Christopher Johnson, Susan Thaul, William F. Page, and Harriet Crawford, Editors; Committee on the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test, Institute of Medicine

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 Study Rationale and Overview; 4 Other Studies of the Human Health Effects of Radiation Exposure; 5 Epidemiology Primer; 6 Description of Operation Crossroads; 7 Data Sources for the Crossroads Study; 8 The Participant Cohort; 9 The Comparison Cohort; 10 Exposure Definition, Measurement, and Verification; 11 Mortality Ascertainment; 12 Characterization of the Cohorts and Analysis Plan; 13 Findings and Discussion; 14 Conclusions; 15 References; 16 Appendix A: National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV) Medical Survey; 17 Appendix B: Particpant Description (DNA memorandum dated July 11, 1994); 18 Appendix C: Standardized Mortality Ratios; 19 Appendix D: Radiation Doses for CROSSROADS Participants and Exposure Surrogate Groups; 20 Appendix E: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of the participant Roster; 21 Appendix F: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of Mortality Ascertainment