OPS.16:4.8 - Compare alternatives under authority and protected conditions

Compare the current, revised, branched, stopped, and still-uncertain alternatives that remain feasible. Use the same operating use, interval, result definition, and protected conditions. Carry uncertainty as an explicit interval, scenario, or missing claim. Preserve alternatives that remain non-dominated for materially different uses or conditions.

Identify the Agent authorized to make the local operating decision and the predicate, scope, and basis of that authority. Clinical, safety, release, financial, employment, security, and other specialist decisions remain with their owners. Expertise, sponsorship, assignment, access, and a tool recommendation do not transfer authority.

A favorable result cannot make an infeasible alternative feasible. Stop or narrow the trial when permission, qualified support, fallback, recovery, evidence validity, or another protected condition is absent.