Triage Definition

trē-äzh, trēäzh
triaged, triages, triaging
noun
A system of assigning priorities of medical treatment based on urgency, chance for survival, etc. and used on battlefields and in hospital emergency wards.
Webster's New World
Any system for prioritizing based on available resources, manpower, etc., as in an emergency.
Webster's New World
A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.
American Heritage
A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority.
American Heritage

(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

Wiktionary
verb
To prioritize (patients, problems, etc.)
Webster's New World
To sort or allocate by triage.
Triaged the patients according to their symptoms.
American Heritage
To sort or allocate by triage.
Triaged the patients according to their symptoms.
American Heritage Medicine

To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.

Wiktionary

Origin of Triage

  • French from trier to sort from Old French to pick out try

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French triage, from trier (“to sort")

    From Wiktionary

Triage Sentence Examples

  • The Red Cross didn't stop with immediate triage of disaster victims.

  • Other front line nurses were trained to perform triage to the Emergency Nurse Practitioner or doctor.

  • They said I had to do the triage so I had no choice.

  • Health visitors may provide similar services for children and often provide telephone triage to advise mothers.

  • A centralized service delivered from a secure site and with adjacent general medical practitioner services was developed using nurse-led triage.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRI

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EGEAGE

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