COMET IV meeting summary

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On two sunny days in Rome in November 2014, more than 200 people with an interest in core outcome sets (COS) from around the world gathered at The Pontificia Università Lateranense for the fourth meeting of the COMET Initiative. They came from 14 countries: Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, UK and USA. The programme was introduced by Liz Gargon (COMET Project Coordinator) and a summary of the coming days was provided by the chair of the COMET Management Group (Paula Williamson). Paula also presented the COMET strategic plan and provided a general update and progress report since the last meeting in Manchester in June 2013. Over the two days, the invited plenary talks were complemented by three workshops, 52 posters (50% more than the number at the 2013 meeting) and four contributed presentations. …