Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesGuideline or statement
Identifying Palliative Care Competencies for Cardiology Fellowship Training
- modified Delphi study
- consensus threshold >75% established a priori for each round
- 3 Delphi rounds
- 5-point Likert scale
Authors' conclusion
This Delphi study achieved consensus on 14 core PC skills that CVD fellows should master by the end of their training. There is an opportunity to include these competencies in formal expectations for cardiology fellowship training programs, which may contribute to the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered cardiovascular care.
Study context
- Population
- Experts in cardiovascular disease (CVD), palliative care (PC), and medical educationinitially consented to participate, of the 120 experts identified · Responded to the first and second rounds 31 · Responded to the third round 28
- Participants
- 36 experts
Recommendations
As reported in the abstract
Competencies reaching consensus (of 35 potential PC competencies) · By the end of round 2
Competencies that had reached consensus
28 (82%)
Competencies that reached >95% consensus
8
Further findings
Classification of competencies · Round 3
- Competencies deemed "core"
- 14 (50%)
- Competencies deemed "desirable"
- 14 (50%)
Participation
- Experts identified
- 120
- Initially consented to participate
- 36 (30%)
Original publication
Identifying Palliative Care Competencies for Cardiology Fellowship Training. JACC Adv. Published 13 January 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.102514
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it