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Record W4411816666 · doi:10.1038/s41431-025-01898-7

Incorporating biobanking into the future of healthcare: exploring patient and healthcare worker perspectives at a Canadian tertiary academic hospital

2025· article· en· W4411816666 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Sila Usta, Noor Kundu, Dylan Gowlett-Park, August Lin, Alexandra Misura, Katarina Czibere, Liying Zhang, Olga Bigun, Renato Sasso, Thibika Gunalingam, Winston Ukpong, Tina Khazaee, Betty Wong, Samuel Matsumura, Hubert Tsui, Signy Chow

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Human Genetics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics in Clinical Research
Canadian institutionsSunnybrook HospitalHealth Sciences CentreThe Scarborough HospitalUniversity of TorontoWestern UniversitySunnybrook Health Science Centre
FundersSunnybrook Research Institute
KeywordsBiobankHealth careDonationWorkflowResource (disambiguation)Medical educationMedicineBusinessPublic relationsFamily medicinePolitical scienceManagementBioinformatics

Abstract

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Biobanks are an essential resource for researchers conducting scientific and translational research but require significant support from institutions and healthcare workers (HW) to operate and are reliant on patient consent and participation. In order to better understand the barriers to institution-wide biobanking, we conducted a survey to examine the knowledge, attitudes and concerns of patients and HW on a range of biobanking-related topics, including consenting practices, privacy and trust in the healthcare team and researchers, and current practices at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Overall, we found that there is strong patient and HW support for biobanking as a resource for research (89-96%). Furthermore, the majority 53% of HW are willing to incorporate biobanking into their clinical workflow and 39% had a neutral response. Encouragingly, patients possess a high level of trust in their healthcare team (80-99%). The main concerns regarding sample donation were 'breaches of privacy' and 'genetic information being used in an exclusionary (discriminatory) fashion.' Concerns around specimen utilization emerged as a major theme from HW. These results will inform and enhance future biobanking practices to improve the patient experience and increase patient engagement while streamlining specimen collection and utilization for scientific research.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.208
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.154
GPT teacher head0.435
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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