{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "workId": "BRC-2026-W001",
  "decidedAt": "2026-08-13",
  "decision": "critical-synthesis",
  "questionType": ["conceptual", "measurement", "clinical-phenotyping"],
  "decisionThatCouldChange": "Whether localized and simultaneous thermal complaints should be recorded as a spatiotemporal field in addition to global cold–heat scores.",
  "alternativesConsidered": [
    { "form": "systematic-review", "decision": "rejected", "reason": "No single intervention, exposure, outcome, or commensurable effect estimate defines the question." },
    { "form": "scoping-review", "decision": "component-only", "reason": "Useful for mapping source families, but insufficient for the conceptual and measurement argument." },
    { "form": "perspective", "decision": "rejected-as-primary", "reason": "Would permit a thesis without requiring explicit counterexamples, measurement failure, and discriminating predictions." },
    { "form": "methods-paper", "decision": "component-only", "reason": "A future protocol can operationalize the model after language and construct work; no instrument has yet been validated." }
  ],
  "minimumEvidence": [
    "construction and validation limits of Korean cold–heat instruments",
    "Korean and Japanese cold-hypersensitivity research",
    "regional thermosensory physiology and psychophysics",
    "dynamic vascular measurement and static-measurement counterexamples",
    "objective–subjective discordance in a well-studied thermal symptom",
    "clinical counterexamples showing non-unique mapping from thermal word to mechanism",
    "edition-located classical passages preserving region, depth, time, or extent"
  ],
  "claimsThisFormCannotSupport": [
    "prevalence in Baekrokdam patients",
    "a new diagnosis",
    "diagnostic accuracy of the proposed field",
    "mechanistic equivalence between classical and modern concepts",
    "effectiveness of Korean-medicine treatment"
  ],
  "redesignTriggers": [
    "If the central question becomes intervention effectiveness, register and conduct a systematic review or trial.",
    "If cognitive interviews fail to produce stable constructs, stop instrument development and publish a qualitative account.",
    "If the source universe becomes sufficiently homogeneous, split a formal scoping or systematic review from the concept paper."
  ]
}