Audit Trails
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An audit trail is a record of user activity in a database. It documents actions such as record creation, data entry, edits, deletions, exports, imports, user rights changes, and project design changes. In clinical research, audit trails support data integrity by allowing the study team to reconstruct who did what, when, and sometimes why.