Guidelines & Templates
Guidelines
NMREB
- Ethical Challenges in Online Research: Bots, suspicious data and other issues (Jan. 20, 2022)
- NMREB Consent Form Guidance Document (Mar. 6, 2024)
- REB Handbook - Arts and Humanities (and Related Diciplines) (July 2022)
HSREB
- Approval of Sponsor Documents (Mar. 11, 2022)
- Case Report vs. Research (Jan. 15, 2017)
- Delegated Level 1 - Retrospective Chart and/or Sample Review (Sept. 18, 2019)
- Female Partner Preliminary & Pregnancy Information (Nov. 16, 2022)
- Health Canada Attestation Form (Jan. 15, 2017)
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) (June 6, 2018)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Feb. 1, 2016)
- Main Letter of Information and Consent (Dec. 4, 2023)
- Multi-phase and Open Label Extensions (Apr. 27, 2023
- Non-Clinical LOI/C (Dec. 4, 2023)
- OBI LOI Confidentiality Clause (May 8, 2015)
- Optional Genetic Biomarker Sub-Study Consent Form (Sept. 6, 2017)
- Research Protocol/Plan (Jun. 5, 2019)
- Registration of Studies (Sept. 10, 2022)
Applicable to Both Boards
- Assent Letter (Apr 28, 2021)
- Autoethnography Guidance (Oct 21, 2020)
- Continuing Ethics Review (CER) (Apr.22, 2019) – Initial Approval Date & CER Date Determination
- Coordinated Review for Multi-Site Research
- Data Security and Confidentiality (Sept. 8, 2020)
- Distinguishing Between Quality Assurance/Improvement & Research (Mar. 9, 2021)
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Mar. 4, 2019)
- Guidelines for Incentives, Reimbursement and, Compensation (Oct. 11, 2023)
- Multi-Jurisdictional Research Guidance (Dec. 13, 2022)
- Open Access/Open Data (Jan. 30, 2018)
- Participant Recruitment (Jun. 28, 2022)
- Remote Consent Guidance (Sept. 28, 2020)
- Student Research and Pedagogical Activities (Jan. 7, 2022)
- Translated Documents (Oct. 25, 2023)
- Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 (2018)
- Unanticipated Problem Reporting - Adverse Event (Jul. 10, 2018)
- Unanticipated Problem Report - Protocol Deviation/Violation (Feb. 22, 2024)
- Use of Qualtrics for Informed Consent (Sept. 28, 2020)
- Vaccination Confirmation for Research Participants (Sept. 17, 2021)
If you require a Technology Risk Assessment (TRA) review for your research submission please visit the TRA website for further information. If you would like to see a list of programs/ technology that have already been submitted to TRAC please visit their Already Submitted to TRAC page.
Templates
The templates below have been created to help researchers create study documentation, and serve as a guide to complement study protocol.
- Classroom Recruitment Script
- Confidentiality Agreement
- Debriefing Form
- Female Partner Pregnancy Letter of Information and Consent
- Female Partner Preliminary Acknowledgement - Optional
- Female Partner Preliminary Letter of Information and Consent
- Letter of Information and Consent: Sample 1
- Letter of Information and Consent: Sample 2
- Muscle Biopsy Subject Screening Form
- Optional Genetic Biomarker Sub Study Letter of Information and Consent
- Participant Photographic Release Form
- Recruitment Email Reminder
- Recruitment Materials: In-Class Recruitment Script
- Recruitment Materials: Recruitment Email
- Recruitment Materials: HSREB Recruitment Poster
- Recruitment Materials: NMREB Recruitment Poster
- Recruitment Materials: Telephone Script
