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Lotspeich SC**, Giganti MJ**, Maia M, Vieira R, Machado DM, Succi RC, Ribeiro S, Pereira MS, Rodriguez MF, Julmiste G, Luque MT, Caro-Vega Y, Mejia F, Shepherd BE*, McGowan CC, Duda SN. Self-audits as alternatives to travel-audits for improving data quality in the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology. Journal of clinical and translational science. 2020 Apr;4(4). 125-132.
Abstract
Audits play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of observational cohort data. While previous work has validated the audit process, sending trained auditors to sites ("travel-audits") can be costly. We investigate the efficacy of training sites to conduct "self-audits."