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[Blog] Winning a Losing Game, Part II: Lessons from Nick Saban on Thinking Like a Champion
(Trilliant Health, January 19, 2021)
Alabama won another college football national championship last week, the seventh for Coach Nick Saban in the past 16 years. With the win, Coach Saban surpassed another Alabama coach, Bear Bryant, who previously held the record for most national championships by a coach. The secret? Being a winner begins with the correct mindset. To survive, and hopefully thrive, every health system must have a competitive mindset. Historically, the notion of “competing” in the “hospital business” was considered crude or impolite by many, with one consistent exception: Catholic nuns.
[Publication] Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2
(WHO, September 11, 2020)
"The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity."
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