For studies requiring full board review, the REB meets on the second Tuesday of each month. Please follow the guidance provided in the REB Calendar for deadlines. We require all REB submissions to be in by 4:00pm on the 1st of each month in order to go for review the following month.
For minimal risk studies, requiring delegated review, you may submit your study at any time to the REB Office.
The Bruyère Health Research Ethics Board has Harmonization Agreements with various regional institutions to streamline the ethics review process for studies falling under the jurisdiction of multiple REBs.
Under both the OHSN and CHEO Agreements, institutional requirements still apply, meaning studies that are not reviewed by the Bruyère Health-REB must still be registered with the Bruyère Health-REB, and likewise, studies not reviewed by the OHSN-REB, must be registered with OHSN. Please contact the CHEO-REB for institutional requirements.
For studies that fall under the OHSN Harmonization Agreement: please complete the Survey here. Studies will be reviewed and approved through one ethics application. A single Board of Record will be assigned.
For studies that fall under the CHEO Agreement: please contact the Bruyère Health and CHEO REB Offices.
For studies that fall under a harmonization agreement and have already obtained REB approval from a Board of Record that is NOT Bruyère Health-REB, you are required to complete the Bruyère Health Registration Form and submit it to the Bruyère Health-REB Office.
For studies that have already received REB approval from the Board of Record at another institution, we do not require you to fill out our BREB form, nor use our Informed Consent Form template. However, for greater than minimal risk studies that will be recruiting our patients/residents/staff/family members/volunteers, we may require you to use the forms and/or templates provided. Please contact the REB Office for guidance.
Please use the mandatory Ethics Checklist to determine the documents required for your submission, and please use the forms and templates provided. Ensure that you fill out each form completely and accurately. Forms that are not filled out completely will be returned. Once you have completed your forms, please fill out the Research Summary Form, and submit this, along with all of your study documents, to your Research Services Manager for review. Once the Senior Director of Research Operations has signed off on your study (section 25 of the BREB – General, and section 20 of the BREB – Chart/Database Review and Secondary Use), you may submit your study to the REB Office for review.
The TCPS2 exempts the following types of projects from REB review:
- Quality Improvement (QI), Quality Assurance (QA) and Program Evaluation (PE)
- Testing within normal educational requirements (curriculum development or evaluation)
- Research that relies exclusively on information that is publicly available and protected by law, or information within the public domain where there is no expectation of privacy.
The REB has the final authority to determine whether a project qualifies for an exemption.
To apply for an exemption, please complete the Exemption Application.