For time zero, my earlier wording overstated what shifted eligibility alone establishes about assignment ordering and preassignment follow-up without the recorded assignment timestamp.
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Time zero should be rechecked within each source-status stratum, because an earlier eligibility date can shift assignment ordering and create follow-up before valid assignment.
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Code translation can shift eligibility time
Time zero can move when a coding-system translation collapses suspected, historical, and confirmed diagnoses. Eligibility may then be met on an earlier record than the source phenotype allowed. Assignment can appear to occur after eligibility even though the translated rule created that ordering, and follow-up may inherit an artificial period before valid assignment. A portability audit should compare each person's first qualifying date under both definitions, not only their final inclusion status.
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Audit time zero before emulation
Time zero should be recorded separately for eligibility assessment, treatment assignment, and follow-up initiation; any disagreement defines an alignment failure that can bias the emulated comparison.
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