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Cardiothoracic Critical Care as Subspecialty and Its Core Competencies

ConditionConsensus Development
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorOhio State University

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

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.

Disqualifiers

Participants who do not meet the exclusion criteria will be excluded due to their lack of experience in the field.

Trial population

A team of experts in the field of cardiothoracic critical care anesthesia.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Delphi Questionnaire

    Other intervention

    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 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 your 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 we obtain agreement (up to 80% of agreement consensus). Questions that have obtained agreement will be removed in each round.

Treatment groups

68 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: Delphi Panel1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Degree of consensus on the curriculum for training cardiothoracic critical care by first evaluating the need for the field

The level of agreement for all statements achieving consensus from the expert panel; consensus is predefined as ≥ 80% of the panel rating.

Time frame
12 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Degree of consensus on defining training core competencies, goals, and milestones.

The level of agreement for all statements achieving consensus from the expert panel; consensus is predefined as ≥ 80% of the panel rating.

Time frame
12 months
2

Degree of consensus on the definitions of "Scholarship", "Patient", "Safety", "Quality"

The level of agreement for all statements achieving consensus from the expert panel; consensus is predefined as ≥ 80% of the panel rating.

Time frame
12 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Ohio State University

Lead sponsor

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