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triaged

Variant of triage

noun

  1. a system of assigning priorities of medical treatment based on urgency, chance for survival, etc. and used on battlefields and in hospital emergency wards
  2. any system for prioritizing based on available resources, manpower, etc., as in an emergency

transitive verb triaged, triaging

to prioritize (patients, problems, etc.)

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