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Committee's Task and Overarching Issues
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... This report builds on the 2008 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Review of NASA's Human Research Program Evidence Books: A Letter Report, which assessed the process for developing NASA's evidence reports and provided an initial and brief review of NASA's original evidence report.1 The committee approached its task by analyzing each evidence report's overall quality, which included the report's readability, its internal consistency, the source and breadth of the evidence it cited, its identification of existing knowledge and research gaps, the expertise of its authors, and, if applicable, the report's response to recommendations from the 2008 IOM letter report previously described.
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... In addition to analyzing the content of individual letter reports, the committee also gathered evidence from existing literature and relevant experts in the field. The committee held two conference call meetings and one in-person meeting, with the latter held in conjunction with a public workshop (see Appendix A)


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