title: Howard Hughes Medical Institute dose assessment survey.
abstract: Biomedical science researchers often express frustration that health physics practices vary widely between individual institutions. A survey examining both internal and external dose assessment practices was devised and mailed to fifty institutions supporting biomedical science research. The results indicate that health physics dose assessment practices and policies are highly variable. Factors which may contribute to the degree of variation are discussed.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: McDougall
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Barkley
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D003710:Demography; D006283:Health Physics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000592:standards*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000592:standards*; D012108:Research Personnel; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States