The Incubator
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Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#386 - 🟢 HOT TOPICS 2025 COVERAGE - When Has Enough Evidence Accumulated to Guide Practice (ft Dr. Ravi Patel)
17 minutes Posted Dec 8, 2025 at 9:00 pm.
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Send us a text Dr. Ravi Patel, Professor at Emory University and Chair of the Georgia Perinatal Quality Collaborative, examines the tension between quality improvement and evidence-based medicine. He argues NICUs should prioritize high-certainty interventions (antenatal steroids, delayed cord clamping) rather than standardizing practices based on low-certainty evidence. Using tools like GRADE to assess evidence certainty helps determine when standardization is appropriate versus when practice...