Makary: Level of evidence is an artificial and dogmatic construct
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Makary: Level of evidence is an artificial and dogmatic construct

Speaking at an FDA Roundtable on Cell and Gene Therapy, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary questioned the construct of “levels of evidence” as artificial and dogmatic, saying that n-of-1 “stories” can drive regulatory decisions.xxx:more“I think we can learn a lot from individual experiences,” Makary said at the roundtable discussion June 5. “We tend to talk in the lexicon of clinical medicine about Level 1, 2, and 3 evidence, and it’s become this sort of dogma that ‘we