Every TRACE engagement reports a specific clinical finding: the elapsed time between the point at which a condition was recognizable from the documented record, and the point at which anyone responded.
In one illustrative post-operative sepsis matter, that interval was nine hours — measured from an abnormal lactate result to the first antimicrobial dose. The physiologic inflection that preceded it went unremarked for twelve.
Determining when something became recognizable requires knowing what a competent clinician should have seen with the information then available. That is a clinical judgment, and it is the reason TRACE exists.
*The Recognition-to-Action Interval is TRACE's analytical convention, not a validated clinical instrument. The basis for each recognition point is stated in every report. TRACE offers no opinion on the legal significance of any interval.