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Meta-analyses and systematic reviews often provide the best answers to clinical questions, but they are not available for every question.

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Use the Pyramid of Evidence on this page to match question type - harm, prognosis, treatment, diagnosis, prevention - to the type of studies that provide the best evidence.

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