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OPS.7:3 - Forces
| Force | Tension |
| simple age signal versus decision relevance | Age is cheap to compute, while consequence and commitment meaning depends on subject, conditions, and horizon. |
| fast escalation versus authority | Delay can demand attention, but priority and commitment changes require their respective authorized Systems. |
| local coordination versus system policy | One priority disposition can change immediate Work without designing queue order, capacity, constraint, or whole-service promises. |
| current evidence versus forecast | Deterioration, delay cost, and recovery burden may be uncertain; unsupported projections should not become urgency facts. |
| fairness versus unlike consequences | A common waiting rule can be legible, while clinical, safety, service, economic, and recovery consequences remain unlike and separately governed. |
| preserving promises versus truthful renegotiation | Keeping a commitment can matter, but hiding infeasibility harms affected parties and later recovery. |
| measurement versus intervention claim | State, age, rate, and trend can be observed directly; claimed intervention effects require stronger temporal and causal discipline. |