• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: FMT and Microbial Medical Products: Generating High-Quality Evidence through Good Governance
  • Contributor: Ossorio, Pilar N.; Zhou, Yao
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019
  • Published in: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/1073110519897727
  • ISSN: 1073-1105; 1748-720X
  • Keywords: Health Policy ; General Medicine ; Issues, ethics and legal aspects
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  • Description: <jats:p>This article argues that current data for the safety and efficacy of fecal microbiota transplants as a treatment for any indication, including recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, is low-quality. It develops a governance proposal that encourages production of high-quality evidence by incentivizing well-designed RCTs of stool and stoolderived microbial products. The proposal would require that FDA change its current enforcement approach, but it would not require any change in statutes or regulations.</jats:p>