Cardiothoracic Critical Care as Subspecialty and Its Core Competencies
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Delphi Questionnaire.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Consensus Development. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Delphi Study for Evaluation of Cardiothoracic Critical Care as a Subspecialty and Its Core Competencies
Overview
The aim of this study is to develop a consensus on the curriculum for training cardiothoracic critical care by first evaluating the need for the field, based on a Delphi consensus among a panel of experts in this field.
Detailed description
This study will use the Delphi process to conduct this study. This survey research involves Phase 1 and Phase 2 of questioning, each phase involves up to 3 rounds of questions to determine agreement or disagreement. Each round will take approximately 20 minutes to complete, and responses will remain completely confidential. For both phases, the questions will either be 7-point Likert or multiple choices. For both phases, the group of questions will be sent up to three times until agreement (up to 80% of agreement consensus). Questions that have obtained agreement will be removed in each round. The questions will help the experts and the research team understand where there is current agreement on, or topic that may need to be discussed/studied further to unify trainings.
Interventions
- Other Delphi Questionnaire
Experts will be approached to participate in the research via email. If the experts agree to participate they will check 'yes' in the email with the informed consent and will be directed to the Qualtrics survey. If the expert decides to decline consent they will check 'no' in the email and will not be enrolled. Subjects who agree to participate will undergo 2 phases of questions with three rounds of the same questions in each phase. This Delphi survey research involves Phase 1 and Phase 2 of que
Primary outcome measures
- Degree of consensus on the curriculum for training cardiothoracic critical care by first evaluating the need for the field [Time frame: 12 months]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Degree of consensus on defining training core competencies, goals, and milestones. [Time frame: 12 months]
- Degree of consensus on the definitions of "Scholarship", "Patient", "Safety", "Quality" [Time frame: 12 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- The participants will be experts in the field of Cardiothoracic Surgery Critical Care Medicine to better understand the training needs of the field. Experts must have been in practice for a minimum of 5 years and have at least 50% of practice in cardiothoracic intensive care units.
- The participants will have graduated from a critical care fellowship in either an administration, education, or research role.
Exclusion criteria
- Participants who do not meet the exclusion criteria will be excluded due to their lack of experience in the field.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center — Columbus
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06370338 · 2024B0101