Cardiothoracic Critical Care as Subspecialty and Its Core Competencies

Conditions

• Consensus Development

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

N/A - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Delphi Questionnaire — OTHER
  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.

Study Details

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.

Key Dates

Start date

Apr 11, 2024

Status verified

Jul 2025

Primary completion

Jul 30, 2026

Completion

Dec 30, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

68 participants (estimated)

Arms

• Arm: Delphi Panel
  Experts in the field of cardiothoracic critical care with administrative, educational, and research roles.

Primary Outcome Measure

Degree of consensus on the curriculum for training cardiothoracic critical care by first evaluating the need for the field [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Central Contacts

• Alberto Uribe, MD
  6142933559
  [email protected]
• Jeremy Reeves
  6142933559
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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