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9 Moving the Conversation Forward
Pages 143-146

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... These challenges include the need for transparency, lack of standardization among endpoints, the difficulties of setting requirements based on chronic disease, the need for a central repository for evidence, and variation in terminology. She remarked 1  As previously mentioned, this workshop will help to inform a separate consensus effort to review and assess methodological approaches to developing nutrient intake recommendations: http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/Nutrition/NutrientIntakeRecommendations.aspx (accessed April 25, 2018)
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... By sharing resources, such disparities could be alleviated. Finally, in session 5 and summarized in Chapter 8, when representatives from different parts of the world shared their different experiences, the lack of a consistent approach to assessing the literature emerged as a major issue, with different systematic reviews following different protocols and different committees using different tools.
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... , but said, "Let's not stop trying." Finally, Atkinson suggested, as a first next step, a scoping of already completed work, such as the methodological work in process at WHO and available work on systematic reviews and other protocols, perhaps through the aforementioned global consultative group. She wondered if all of the knowledge accrued thus far could be combined under one tent, from which next steps could then be decided.
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... His hope was that the understanding, or scoping, of the i ­ssues made possible by this workshop would help to move this field forward, although he also expressed caution given the complexity and magnitude of the challenge. We are "humbly here," he said, and will build on "what you have started to construct today."
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