Pfizer, Inc.'s Tissue Bank, in conjunction with Pfizer's BioBank (biofluid repository), endeavored to create an overarching internal software package to cover all general functions of both research facilities, including sample receipt, reconciliation, processing, storage, and ordering. Business process flow diagrams were developed by the Tissue Bank and Informatics teams as a way of characterizing best practices both within the Bank and in its interactions with key internal and external stakeholders. Besides serving as a first step for the software development, such formalized process maps greatly assisted the identification and communication of best practices and the optimization of current procedures. The diagrams shared here could assist other biospecimen research repositories (both pharmaceutical and other settings) for comparative purposes or as a guide to successful informatics design. Therefore, it is recommended that biorepositories consider establishing formalized business process flow diagrams for their laboratories, to address these objectives of communication and strategy.

Limited studies are available on how decisions and perceptions on SARS-CoV-2 vaccination have changed since the start of vaccination availability. We performed a qualitative study to identify factors critical to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination decision making and how perspectives evolved among African American/Black, Native American, and Hispanic communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and social and economic disadvantage. We conducted 16 virtual meetings, with 232 participants in wave 1 meetings (December 2020) and with 206 returning participants in wave 2 meetings (January and February 2021). Wave 1 vaccine concerns in all communities included information needs, vaccine safety, and speed of vaccine development. Lack of trust in government and the pharmaceutical industry was influential, particularly among African American/Black and Native American participants. Participants showed more willingness to get vaccinated at wave 2 than at wave 1, indicating that many of their information needs had been addressed. Hesitancy remained greater among African American/Black and Native American participants than among Hispanic participants. Participants in all groups indicated that conversations tailored to their community and with those most trustworthy to them would be helpful. To overcome vaccine hesitancy, we propose a model of fully considered SARS-CoV-2 vaccine decision making, whereby public health departments supply information, align with community values and recognize lived experiences, offer support for decision making, and make vaccination easy and convenient.

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El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la validez y confiabilidad de la rúbrica de observación de aula para la evaluación del desempeño de los docentes de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), Perú, a través de juicio de expertos, 2020; el estudio corresponde al enfoque cuantitativo, diseño no experimental - transversal; la población y muestra estuvo constituida por 12 jueces expertos, docentes de las universidades del Cusco, Lima y México; la técnica utilizada para hallar la validez de la rúbrica de observación de aula fue juicio de expertos y para calcular la confiabilidad se aplicó la rúbrica en grupo piloto de 05 docentes de la Facultad de Educación de la UNSAAC; el estadístico para hallar la validez de contenido y de constructo,  fue el índice de validez factorial, propuesto por McGartland, Berg-Weger, Tebb y Rauch (2003), al desarrollar dicho método se calculó tres índices de validez de acuerdo inter jueces, validez de contenido y validez factorial y para calcular la confiabilidad se utilizó el coeficiente de alfa de Cronbach; los resultados en términos globales evidenciaron un valor de 0,966 en la primera visita y 0,974 en segunda visita, respectivamente; concluyendo que la rúbrica de observación de aula es válida y confiable para la evaluación del desempeño docente de profesores de educación, confirmando que todos los indicadores y criterios de todos los componentes corresponden al diseño del estudio.