Which statement best explains why institutions may adopt their own approaches to streamline ethics reviews?

Which statement best explains why institutions may adopt their own approaches to streamline ethics reviews?

• A. To ensure universal standardization
• B. To respect jurisdictional differences and improve efficiency
• C. To eliminate REB oversight
• D. To complicate the process

Answer: (B)

Institutions tailor ethics review processes to fit local laws, policies, and resources while still aligning with TCPS 2. This flexibility acknowledges jurisdictional differences and aims to make reviews more efficient by enabling streamlined workflows, centralized handling, or appropriate reliance on other REBs. Universal standardization would ignore real legal differences, eliminating REB oversight would breach ethical governance, and making the process more complicated would defeat the goal of streamlining.

Institutions tailor ethics review processes to fit local laws, policies, and resources while still aligning with TCPS 2. This flexibility acknowledges jurisdictional differences and aims to make reviews more efficient by enabling streamlined workflows, centralized handling, or appropriate reliance on other REBs. Universal standardization would ignore real legal differences, eliminating REB oversight would breach ethical governance, and making the process more complicated would defeat the goal of streamlining.