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➢ ALCOA+: The data integrity acronym that stands for Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous,
Original record, Accurate and Complete, Consistent, Enduring, and Available
➢ Correction: A change made to any entry within a document.
➢ Data Integrity: The act of generating, transforming and maintaining the accuracy
completeness and consistency of data over its life cycle in compliance with applicable
regulations.
➢ Document: A document is a controlled or uncontrolled hardcopy or electronic transcript that
provides information or data. To document, is to record information or data.
➢ Documentation: Documentation may include, but is not limited to procedures, instructions,
contracts, records, and data in paper or electronic form.
➢ Good Documentation Practices: A set of requirements implemented to ensure attributable,
legible, contemporaneous, original, permanent, and accurate, documentation of work.
➢ GxP: Refers to the applicable federal regulations for Good Practices such as Good
Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), Good Clinical Practices
(GCP), Good Pharmacovigilance Practices (GVP) and Good Distribution Practices (GDP).
➢ Traceability: the ability to reconstruct the development history of documentation supporting
GxP activities (either hard copy or electronic).