Veterans at Risk The Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite (1993) / Chapter Skim
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2 Methods of Literature Collection and Survey
2 Methods of Literature Collection and Survey
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ONLINE DATABASES The initial emphasis was a comprehensive search of relevant online databases. These computerized databases offer the most effective means of identifying international scientific literature and, in general, cover the time span from 1965 to the present.
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research on chemical warfare agents, scientists collected and reviewed the scientific literature and compiled bibliographies, which recorded the pre-WWII literature as well as ongoing military research. These include the bibliography for the Office of Scientific Research and Development, National Defense Research Committee's Summary Technical Report of Division 9: Chemical Warfare Agents and Related Chemical Problems; chapter reference lists in the three volumes of the National Research Council's Fasciculus on Chemical Warfare Medicine; and an unpublished bibliography compiled by the National Research Council's Committee on Treatment of Gas Casualties, entitled Bibliography of the Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare: Published Literature.
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Cancerlit Scisearch Environmental Mutagen Information Center Backfile (Toxnet) Life Sciences Collection Pascal Conference Papers Index SSIE Current Research Analytical Abstracts Online World Translations Index Chemical Industry Notes Dissertation Abstracts Online Federal Register Pollution Abstracts Compendex Plus Environmental Bibliography REMARC Chemical Regulations and Guidelines Systems AGRICOLA Chemical Safety Newsbase International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Enviroline LC MARC Books Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology (Toxnet)
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SUPPLEMENTAL WORLD WAR 11 MILITARY REPORTS In addition to the published scientific literature, essential supplemental information was made available to the committee through military and technical reports and also through archival research. Retrieving technical and military documents involved searching archival records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
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Aberdeen Proving Ground provided information on three publicly releasable documents and reviewed on a case-by-case basis other FOIA requests for military reports. British documents on WWII chemical warfare agent research were sent by the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Ministry of Defence, Great Britain.
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In other words, the application of Hill's guidelines can be difficult when assessing literature that is incomplete or sparse. The assumptions made and the difficulties encountered in assessing the literature regarding the health effects of mustard agents and Lewisite are discussed in this report in the chapters dealing with specific organ systems and health conditions.
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Available at the National Research Council Archives, Washington, DC. Office of Scientific Research and Development.
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