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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Trials. 2009 Apr;6(2):141–150. doi: 10.1177/1740774509102590

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Database error rates by year, 1997–2006. From 1997–2001, variability and the central tendency of the error rates for all database-lock audits performed prior to start of SPC audits trend upward. After SPC implementation in third quarter 2001, data variability declined and quality increased.