Funder: Laerdal Research Grant (£5,000.00) to fund international consensus meeting.

Start date: Consensus meeting 28-29^th October, 2015.

PI: Kirstie Haywood (Warwick).

Collaborators: Gavin Perkins (Warwick); Laura Whitehead (Warwick – PhD student) plus co-applicants.

Description: The international consensus is the culmination of a programme of activities working towards the final core outcome set recommendations. The two-day meeting will involve plenary presentations, small group and large group discussion and final voting on the core outcome set. Planned publications include a paper detailing the consensus meeting and COS recommendation. Additional papers will document the stags completed to reach this stage (review of outcomes in cardiac arrest (published Whitehead at al (2015)); qualitative interviews with survivors of cardiac arrest).