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Measurement of clinical trial source data verification accuracy: A brief report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2026

Muayad Hamidi*
Affiliation:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, TX, USA
Subrata Debnath
Affiliation:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, TX, USA
Manju Bikkanuri
Affiliation:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, TX, USA
Kumar Sharma
Affiliation:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, TX, USA
Meredith Zozus
Affiliation:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, TX, USA
*
Corresponding author: M. Hamidi; Email: hamidim@uthscsa.edu
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Abstract

Source data verification (SDV) compares study data with original source records to ensure accuracy and completeness. The purpose of this study was to obtain a measure of the error rate of the SDV process. We evaluated three successive rounds of SDV on the same clinical trial to determine its effectiveness in identifying data errors. Full SDV failed to detect 14% of data errors, demonstrating SDV process fallibility. These findings demonstrate the fallibility of the SDV process and highlight the limitations of full SDV as a standalone approach to ensuring clinical research data quality.

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Table 1.Error rates by period (SDV rounds)Table 1 long description.