Using the GRADE evidence to decision framework to reach recommendations together with ethnic minority community organizations: the example of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the United Kingdom.

Objectives: To make recommendations regarding factors that affect COVID-19 vaccine uptake by ethnic minority individuals in the United Kingdom, together with strategies that could be used to increase uptake.

Study Design And Setting: The results of two rapid systematic reviews-one identifying factors that affect respiratory vaccine uptake in ethnic minority adults and the other identifying experimental evaluations of strategies to increase vaccine uptake in ethnic minority adults-were put into Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision frameworks to support discussion with a panel of ethnic minority community organizations, community-focused small companies, and academics of the relevance of the review findings to the UK COVID context. Aided by the frameworks, the panel made recommendations for factors that need to be addressed to increase vaccine uptake, and for which strategies might be used to increase uptake.