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Principles & Evidence
Chapter draft
What the chapter teaches, and where research can help us explore its practical applications.
The chapter describes Jesus’ example. The studies below examine limited applications in modern life; they do not test its historical or spiritual claims.
Empathic care may help patient experience. It does not establish universal healing or the effects of cheerfulness alone.
Everyday guide → Research details →Simple language can help understanding, with mixed results across audiences and messages.
Everyday guide → Research details →Constructive contact can help, but effects are often small and negative encounters can worsen attitudes.
Everyday guide → Research details →Spiritual, ethical and ministry principles remain part of the chapter. “No scientific assessment” does not mean that a teaching is false. Open a paragraph to see the source and the screening decision.
Our Lord Jesus Christ came to this world as the unwearied servant of man's necessity. He “took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses,” that He might minister to every need of humanity. Matthew 8:17 . The burden of disease and wretchedness and sin He came to remove. It was His mission to bring to men complete restoration; He came to give them health and peace and perfection of character.
Screening decision: The restoration, salvation and character claims describe Christ’s mission. Modern clinical studies cannot validate divine agency or complete restoration.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 17.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: The mission of Christ is to minister to every human need and bring complete restoration, including health, peace, and perfection of character.
Original candidate: Christ came to give men health and peace and perfection of character.
Varied were the circumstances and needs of those who besought His aid, and none who came to Him went away unhelped. From Him flowed a stream of healing power, and in body and mind and soul men were made whole.
Screening decision: Universal healing is a claim about Christ. Do not turn it into a promise that modern care cures everyone.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 17.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Christ's ministry provides complete help and restoration to everyone who seeks His aid.
Original candidate: Every individual who sought Christ's aid received help.
The Saviour's work was not restricted to any time or place. His compassion knew no limit. On so large a scale did He conduct His work of healing and teaching that there was no building in Palestine large enough to receive the multitudes that thronged to Him. On the green hill slopes of Galilee, in the thoroughfares of travel, by the seashore, in the synagogues, and in every other place where the sick could be brought to Him, was to be found His hospital. In every city, every town, every village, through which He passed, He laid His hands upon the afflicted ones and healed them. Wherever there were hearts ready to receive His message, He comforted them with the assurance of their heavenly Father's love. All day He ministered to those who came to Him; in the evening He gave attention to such as through the day must toil to earn a pittance for the support of their families.
Screening decision: The locations, crowds and evening ministry are narrative and ministry examples. No new clinical effect estimate or recommendation for unlimited working hours is inferred.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 17.3 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Ministry and service to those in need should not be restricted by time, place, or artificial boundaries.
Original candidate: There was no building in Palestine large enough to receive the multitudes that thronged to Him.
Jesus carried the awful weight of responsibility for the salvation of men. He knew that unless there was a decided change in the principles and purposes of the human race, all would be lost. This was the burden of His soul, and none could appreciate the weight that rested upon Him. Through childhood, youth, and manhood He walked alone. Yet it was heaven to be in His presence. Day by day He met trials and temptations; day by day He was brought into contact with evil and witnessed its power upon those whom He was seeking to bless and to save. Yet He did not fail or become discouraged.
Screening decision: The burden of salvation and Christ’s perseverance are theological biography, not a trial of resilience training.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 18.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Perseverance and resilience in fulfilling one's mission despite constant trials and contact with evil.
Original candidate: Jesus persevered through daily trials and temptation without failing or becoming discouraged.
In all things He brought His wishes into strict abeyance to His mission. He glorified His life by making everything in it subordinate to the will of His Father. When in His youth His mother, finding Him in the school of the rabbis, said, “Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us?” He answered,—and His answer is the keynote of His lifework,—“How is it that ye sought Me? wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business?” Luke 2:48, 49 .
Screening decision: Submission to the Father’s will and the biblical quotation concern faith and mission.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 19.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: An individual's personal wishes and life pursuits should be brought into strict abeyance and made subordinate to the will and mission of God.
Original candidate: Jesus Christ consistently subordinated all His personal wishes and life activities to the will and mission of His Father.
His life was one of constant self-sacrifice. He had no home in this world except as the kindness of friends provided for Him as a wayfarer. He came to live in our behalf the life of the poorest and to walk and work among the needy and the suffering. Unrecognized and unhonored, He walked in and out among the people for whom He had done so much.
Screening decision: The account of sacrifice exemplifies service; it does not establish that self-neglect or homelessness improves health.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 19.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Service to others requires self-sacrifice and solidarity with the needy and suffering.
Original candidate: Christ lived the life of the poorest and worked among the needy and suffering.
He was always patient and cheerful, and the afflicted hailed Him as a messenger of life and peace. He saw the needs of men and women, children and youth, and to all He gave the invitation, “Come unto Me.”
Screening decision: Reuse P10/C38. Empathy research tests a limited modern application; it does not isolate cheerfulness or validate miraculous healing.
P10 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 19.3 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Ministers of healing should maintain patience and cheerfulness while responding to the diverse needs of all people by extending a welcoming invitation.
Original candidate: Maintaining patience and cheerfulness in ministry causes the afflicted to view the worker as a messenger of life and peace.
Original candidate: Extending invitations of comfort to all demographic groups—men, women, children, and youth—fulfills the mandate of noticing human needs.
During His ministry, Jesus devoted more time to healing the sick than to preaching. His miracles testified to the truth of His words, that He came not to destroy, but to save. Wherever He went, the tidings of His mercy preceded Him. Where He had passed, the objects of His compassion were rejoicing in health and making trial of their new-found powers. Crowds were collecting around them to hear from their lips the works that the Lord had wrought. His voice was the first sound that many had ever heard, His name the first word they had ever spoken, His face the first they had ever looked upon. Why should they not love Jesus and sound His praise? As He passed through the towns and cities He was like a vital current, diffusing life and joy.
Screening decision: Miracles, restored senses and the relative time spent healing are narrative claims. Clinical empathy trials cannot prove these events.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 19.4 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Medical ministry and physical healing are integral components of effective Christian service and witness.
Original candidate: Jesus devoted more time to healing the sick than to preaching during His ministry.
“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations, The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.” Matthew 4:15, 16 , A.R.V., margin.
Screening decision: Matthew 4:15–16 is quoted imagery. No additional empirical principle is extracted; light is not a sunlight-treatment claim here.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 20.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
The Saviour made each work of healing an occasion for implanting divine principles in the mind and soul. This was the purpose of His work. He imparted earthly blessings, that He might incline the hearts of men to receive the gospel of His grace.
Screening decision: The stated purpose is receiving the gospel. Health education outcomes do not establish conversion or salvation.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 20.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Physical healing and earthly blessings should be used as an occasion to impart divine principles and incline hearts toward the gospel.
Original candidate: Christ's primary purpose in performing works of healing was to implant divine principles in the mind and soul.
Christ might have occupied the highest place among the teachers of the Jewish nation, but He preferred rather to take the gospel to the poor. He went from place to place, that those in the highways and byways might hear the words of truth. By the sea, on the mountainside, in the streets of the city, in the synagogue, His voice was heard explaining the Scriptures. Often He taught in the outer court of the temple, that the Gentiles might hear His words.
Screening decision: Public teaching and attention to the poor and Gentiles are ministry examples, not a measured outreach effect.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 20.3 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Christ prioritized bringing the gospel to the poor and marginalized across diverse public and social settings rather than seeking elite status.
Original candidate: Jesus traveled to various locations such as the sea, mountainside, city streets, synagogues, and the outer court of the temple to teach.
So unlike the explanations of Scripture given by the scribes and Pharisees was Christ's teaching, that the attention of the people was arrested. The rabbis dwelt upon tradition, upon human theory and speculation. Often that which men had taught and written about the Scripture was put in place of the Scripture itself. The subject of Christ's teaching was the word of God. He met questioners with a plain, “It is written,” “What saith the Scripture?” “How readest thou?” At every opportunity when an interest was awakened by either friend or foe, He presented the word. With clearness and power He proclaimed the gospel message. His words shed a flood of light on the teachings of patriarchs and prophets, and the Scriptures came to men as a new revelation. Never before had His hearers perceived in the word of God such depth of meaning.
Screening decision: This compares religious teaching with tradition. It does not establish the scientific superiority of a teaching method.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 21.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Instructors should prioritize the direct word of God over human tradition and speculation, presenting Scripture clearly at every opportunity.
Original candidate: Christ's teaching method arrested the attention of the people because it differed from the scribes and Pharisees.
Never was there such an evangelist as Christ. He was the Majesty of heaven, but He humbled Himself to take our nature, that He might meet men where they were. To all people, rich and poor, free and bond, Christ, the Messenger of the covenant, brought the tidings of salvation. His fame as the Great Healer spread throughout Palestine. The sick came to the places through which He would pass, that they might call on Him for help. Hither, too, came many anxious to hear His words and to receive a touch of His hand. Thus He went from city to city, from town to town, preaching the gospel and healing the sick—the King of glory in the lowly garb of humanity.
Screening decision: Humility, incarnation and accounts of healing have theological and historical meaning; no modern universal healing claim is inferred.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 22.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Effective ministry requires meeting people in their current circumstances and offering salvation and healing to all without distinction.
Original candidate: Christ's fame as a healer spread throughout Palestine, drawing the sick and those wishing to hear Him.
He attended the great yearly festivals of the nation, and to the multitude absorbed in outward ceremony He spoke of heavenly things, bringing eternity within their view. To all He brought treasures from the storehouse of wisdom. He spoke to them in language so simple that they could not fail of understanding. By methods peculiarly His own, He helped all who were in sorrow and affliction. With tender, courteous grace He ministered to the sin-sick soul, bringing healing and strength.
Screening decision: Replace the initial universal-comprehension proposal with a limited question about plain-language health information. The narrative concerns spiritual teaching.
P11 · Related application → P10 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 22.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Ministers and helpers should communicate spiritual truth with simplicity and minister to others with tender, courteous grace.
Original candidate: Christ spoke in language simple enough that listeners could not fail to understand.
The prince of teachers, He sought access to the people by the pathway of their most familiar associations. He presented the truth in such a way that ever after it was to His hearers intertwined with their most hallowed recollections and sympathies. He taught in a way that made them feel the completeness of His identification with their interests and happiness. His instruction was so direct, His illustrations were so appropriate, His words so sympathetic and cheerful, that His hearers were charmed. The simplicity and earnestness with which He addressed the needy, hallowed every word.
Screening decision: Plain-language and empathy findings are related applications. They do not separately establish the effects of familiar illustrations, lasting memory or spiritual insight.
P11 · Related application → P10 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 23.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Effective teaching and ministry connect with people through familiar associations and genuine sympathy.
Original candidate: Presenting truth through familiar associations causes hearers to intertwine the truth with hallowed recollections and sympathies.
What a busy life He led! Day by day He might have been seen entering the humble abodes of want and sorrow, speaking hope to the downcast and peace to the distressed. Gracious, tenderhearted, pitiful, He went about lifting up the bowed-down and comforting the sorrowful. Wherever He went, He carried blessing.
Screening decision: Related to the existing empathy review. That evidence does not isolate home visits, hope alone or a guarantee of relief.
P10 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 24.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Active engagement in relieving distress and bringing blessing to others characterizes an exemplary ministry.
Original candidate: Christ's daily life involved entering humble abodes to speak hope and peace.
While He ministered to the poor, Jesus studied also to find ways of reaching the rich. He sought the acquaintance of the wealthy and cultured Pharisee, the Jewish nobleman, and the Roman ruler. He accepted their invitations, attended their feasts, made Himself familiar with their interests and occupations, that He might gain access to their hearts, and reveal to them the imperishable riches.
Screening decision: Intentional outreach to wealthy people is a ministry strategy. This passage supplies no measurable claim about modern treatment or conversion rates.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 24.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Efforts to reach the wealthy and influential should involve thoughtful engagement with their lives and interests.
Original candidate: Jesus sought out the wealthy and cultured Pharisee, the Jewish nobleman, and the Roman ruler.
Christ came to this world to show that by receiving power from on high, man can live an unsullied life. With unwearying patience and sympathetic helpfulness He met men in their necessities. By the gentle touch of grace He banished from the soul unrest and doubt, changing enmity to love, and unbelief to confidence.
Screening decision: Reuse empathy evidence for the interpersonal application only. Divine power and an unsullied moral life are separate spiritual teachings.
P10 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 25.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Divine power enables human beings to live pure and unsullied lives.
Original candidate: Receiving power from on high enables man to live an unsullied life.
Original proposal: Ministry to others should be characterized by unwearying patience and sympathetic helpfulness to meet human necessities.
Original candidate: Meeting human necessities with unwearying patience and sympathetic helpfulness impacts emotional and mental states.
He could say to whom He pleased, “Follow Me,” and the one addressed arose and followed Him. The spell of the world's enchantment was broken. At the sound of His voice the spirit of greed and ambition fled from the heart, and men arose, emancipated, to follow the Saviour.
Screening decision: Spiritual liberation from greed is described in a conversion narrative; it is not a clinical intervention evaluated here.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 25.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Christ's call has the power to break worldly enchantment and liberate individuals from greed and ambition.
Original candidate: Responding to Christ's voice breaks the influence of worldly enchantment, greed, and ambition upon the heart.
Christ recognized no distinction of nationality or rank or creed. The scribes and Pharisees desired to make a local and a national benefit of the gifts of heaven and to exclude the rest of God's family in the world. But Christ came to break down every wall of partition. He came to show that His gift of mercy and love is as unconfined as the air, the light, or the showers of rain that refresh the earth.
Screening decision: An ethical principle of inclusion. Air, light and rain are comparisons for mercy, not separate physiological claims.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 25.3 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Divine mercy and love are intended for all people universally, transcending boundaries of nationality, rank, and creed.
Original candidate: Divine gifts of mercy and love are unconfined to any specific nationality, rank, or creed.
The life of Christ established a religion in which there is no caste, a religion by which Jew and Gentile, free and bond, are linked in a common brotherhood, equal before God. No question of policy influenced His movements. He made no difference between neighbors and strangers, friends and enemies. That which appealed to His heart was a soul thirsting for the waters of life.
Screening decision: Equality before God is an ethical and theological commitment, not an outcome science can certify.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 25.4 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Religious life modeled after Christ must maintain no social caste and must treat all individuals as equal before God regardless of societal divisions.
Original candidate: The historical life of Jesus established a religion without caste.
He passed by no human being as worthless, but sought to apply the healing remedy to every soul. In whatever company He found Himself He presented a lesson appropriate to the time and the circumstances. Every neglect or insult shown by men to their fellow men only made Him more conscious of their need of His divine-human sympathy. He sought to inspire with hope the roughest and most unpromising, setting before them the assurance that they might become blameless and harmless, attaining such a character as would make them manifest as the children of God.
Screening decision: Related to empathy and tailored communication. These studies cannot establish blameless character or that encouragement guarantees change.
P10 · Related application → P11 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 25.5 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Every human being should be valued without viewing anyone as worthless, seeking to apply healing and help to every soul.
Original candidate: Treating people as having worth and applying healing remedies to every soul affects their life outcomes.
Original proposal: Efforts should be made to inspire hope in the roughest and most unpromising individuals by assuring them of the possibility of attaining a blameless character.
Original candidate: Providing hope and moral assurance to the roughest individuals leads to character transformation.
Often He met those who had drifted under Satan's control, and who had no power to break from his snare. To such a one, discouraged, sick, tempted, fallen, Jesus would speak words of tenderest pity, words that were needed and could be understood. Others He met who were fighting a hand-to-hand battle with the adversary of souls. These He encouraged to persevere, assuring them that they would win; for angels of God were on their side and would give them the victory.
Screening decision: Reuse communication and empathy research only for the modern interpersonal application; angelic aid and spiritual victory remain theological claims.
P10 · Related application → P11 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 26.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: When interacting with those trapped under spiritual control or facing severe temptation, one should offer words of tender pity that are needed and understood.
Original candidate: Speaking tender and comprehensible words of pity helps individuals who are discouraged, sick, tempted, or fallen.
Original proposal: Those engaged in spiritual conflict should be encouraged to persevere with the assurance of ultimate success.
Original candidate: Assurances of divine support and victory encourage individuals to persevere in difficult personal struggles.
At the table of the publicans He sat as an honored guest, by His sympathy and social kindliness showing that He recognized the dignity of humanity; and men longed to become worthy of His confidence. Upon their thirsty hearts His words fell with blessed, life-giving power. New impulses were awakened, and to these outcasts of society there opened the possibility of a new life.
Screening decision: Related to relational care. Research does not validate the spiritual transformation described or prove that sympathy always changes behaviour.
P10 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 26.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Social interaction marked by genuine sympathy and kindness affirms human dignity and can awaken a desire for a transformed life.
Original candidate: Social interaction combined with sympathy and kindliness causes men to long to become worthy of confidence.
Though He was a Jew, Jesus mingled freely with the Samaritans, setting at nought the Pharisaic customs of His nation. In face of their prejudices He accepted the hospitality of this despised people. He slept with them under their roofs, ate with them at their tables,—partaking of the food prepared and served by their hands,—taught in their streets, and treated them with the utmost kindness and courtesy. And while He drew their hearts to Him by the tie of human sympathy, His divine grace brought to them the salvation which the Jews rejected.
Screening decision: A modern social-science application is testable. Contact studies cannot verify this historical encounter, divine grace or salvation.
P12 · Related application →egw:MH:1905:en:MH 26.3 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Believers should transcend social, cultural, and national prejudices by treating all people with kindness, courtesy, and active sympathy.
Original candidate: Mingling freely with diverse groups and partaking in their hospitality overcomes social prejudice and draws their hearts through human sympathy.
Christ neglected no opportunity of proclaiming the gospel of salvation. Listen to His wonderful words to that one woman of Samaria. He was sitting by Jacob's well, as the woman came to draw water. To her surprise He asked a favor of her. “Give Me to drink,” He said. He wanted a cool draft, and He wished also to open the way whereby He might give to her the water of life. “How is it,” said the woman, “that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.” Jesus answered, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.... Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:7-14 .
Screening decision: Living water in John 4 is a spiritual metaphor. It is not a claim that ordinary water ends thirst permanently.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 27.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Believers should utilize everyday circumstances and personal interactions to offer spiritual truth and salvation to others.
Original candidate: Christ utilized conversational openings during ordinary tasks to offer spiritual instruction.
How much interest Christ manifested in this one woman! How earnest and eloquent were His words! When the woman heard them, she left her waterpot, and went into the city, saying to her friends, “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?” We read that “many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him.” Verses 29, 39 . And who can estimate the influence which these words have exerted for the saving of souls in the years that have passed since then?
Screening decision: The influence on faith is narrated, not quantified. No modern clinical or conversion effect is inferred.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 28.1 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: The personal witness of an individual touched by Christ can exert an incalculable, enduring influence for the salvation of others.
Original candidate: The words and testimony of the Samaritan woman exerted an influence that resulted in the saving of souls over subsequent years.
Wherever hearts are open to receive the truth, Christ is ready to instruct them. He reveals to them the Father, and the service acceptable to Him who reads the heart. For such He uses no parables. To them, as to the woman at the well, He says, “I that speak unto thee am He.”
Screening decision: Spiritual revelation and recognition of Christ are outside this empirical review.
egw:MH:1905:en:MH 28.2 · Source version remains draft. Original proposals below are retained for comparison; they are not accepted scientific conclusions.
Original proposal: Christ is ready to instruct and reveal divine truth to those whose hearts are open to receive it.
Original candidate: Christ is ready to instruct individuals whose hearts are open to receive the truth.
All 28 paragraphs screened in context. Three modern research applications selected; two new targeted assessments of five papers each, plus existing P10. Remaining spiritual, ethical and ministry principles are retained without scientific verdicts. This is a first chapter draft, not an exhaustive systematic review. Candidates marked Further appraisal have not received full appraisal.
Consensus: 2 new calls, capped at 2 for this chapter. The 500-call allowance is an account limit, not this chapter’s spending target. Remaining account balance has not been queried. Raw responses are saved privately; rerunning discovery reuses them.
Source checks: Europe PMC exact-DOI records for eight selected papers showed no indexed erratum or retraction links on 2026-11-03. The youth trial has a commentary; Friehs has a preprint link. Lowe and Paluck were checked against publisher records. No blanket claim that every paper is correction-free is made.
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Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Different intervention or outcome from the selected chapter research questions.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Different intervention or outcome from the selected chapter research questions.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Different intervention or outcome from the selected chapter research questions.
Different intervention or outcome from the selected chapter research questions.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Selected for direct relevance, methodological qualification or a contrasting result.
Selected for direct relevance, methodological qualification or a contrasting result.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Selected for direct relevance, methodological qualification or a contrasting result.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Selected for direct relevance, methodological qualification or a contrasting result.
Protocol: no completed outcome findings to assess.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Selected for direct relevance, methodological qualification or a contrasting result.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.
Retained as a candidate or background source outside the selected ten-paper appraisal. Not counted as evidence of benefit or absence of benefit.