Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Ohio State University

Code:

NCT06370338

Conditions

Consensus Development

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Delphi Questionnaire

Study Details

Brief summary:

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.

Conditions

Consensus Development

Study ID

NCT06370338

Start date

Apr 11, 2024

Status verified date

Sep, 2026

Completion date

Dec 30, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 30, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Study Design

Enrollment

68 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Delphi Panel

Experts in the field of cardiothoracic critical care with administrative, educational, and research roles.

Interventions

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 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.

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 and Locations

Central contacts

Alberto Uribe, MD

6142933559alberto.uribe@osumc.edu

Jeremy Reeves

6142933559jeremy.reeves@osumc.edu

Locations

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Recruiting

Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210

Contacts

Alberto Uribe, MD

614-293-3559alberto.uribe@osumc.edu

Jeremy Reeves, BA

6148067569jeremy.reeves@osumc.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Ohio State University

Last update posted

Sep 8, 2026

Last verified

Sep, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Ohio State University on 2026-09-08.