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High quality scientific evidence is increasingly available to help the providers of health care make decisions about what types of investigations to order for an individual patient, and how to treat any health problems that are identified. “Evidence-based medicine” has been facilitated by the availability of results from different types of clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and meta-analyses which allow the results of many small studies to be combined in a way that reduces the uncertainty about the overall effect of clinical interventions.