The phrase "a basis for consensus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundation or grounds upon which agreement or shared understanding is built among individuals or groups.
Example: "The committee established a basis for consensus by outlining the key issues and encouraging open dialogue among all members."
Alternatives: "a foundation for agreement" or "a ground for mutual understanding."
"We just really have to peel back the layers of the onion here, so to speak, and go back to the drawing board, and try to see what essentially could be a basis for consensus," Ms. Snowe said.
For the Ru (Confucians), the traditional social roles and ritual etiquette of the waning Zhou dynasty provide a basis for consensus in ethical judgments.
The Steering Committee regarded a comprehensive systematic literature review as a mandatory initial step to serve as a basis for consensus on the definition of treatment targets.
In each of these examples, the harm principle is insufficient as a basis for achieving moral consensus.
Therefore, they should only be used as a basis for a multidisciplinary consensus [ 6, 7].
Therefore, they should only be used as a basis for a multidisciplinary consensus.
We performed a systematic literature review to assess prognostic factors and treatment efficacy in choroid plexus tumours as a basis for stimulating an international consensus to form the basis of an international trial working group mainly within the International Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP).
Most promising is the identification of an extensive checklist of critical and noncritical factors in determining transferability potential, which may form the basis for consensus of a future tool.
As was done in the exercise described herein, the quantitative assessment can serve as the basis for consensus decision-making.
Although the list of factors has varied substantially across publications, some patterns have emerged which might form the basis for consensus in the development of a future tool, checklist, or system.
Most published studies involving animal models of atherosclerosis have used high dietary lipids and cholesterol (various modifications of Western style diets), and these studies have formed the basis for consensus around the mechanisms underlying the development of atherosclerosis.
