Some systems that have electronic audit trails don’t
have the means to indicate that those audit trails have been
reviewed, resulting in having to divide the audit trail review
into smaller chunks and primarily having those audit trails
be very, very relevant to the data that is being reviewed.
For example, for pharmaceutical batch release, a QA review
must be performed for all the relevant records that go into
manufacturing that product and all the systems that support its
manufacture. If the QA review looks at audit trail entries that
are relevant to those records, even if it happens to be on paper
the audit trail review is more relevant to the record review
itself. So the review is less cumbersome simply as a result of
dividing the problem into smaller chunks that are more relevant
to the actual record.
