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Combating Lag Time Bias

July 1, 2019

“Lag time” refers to the amount of time between a patient’s experience and when the survey of that patient’s experience is administered, and research indicates that this amount of time affects patient perceptions in HCAHPS surveys. You can think of this as “lag time bias.”