Definitions for triage
triˈɑʒtriage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. triagenoun

   sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. triagenoun

   Assessment or sorting according to quality.

2. triagenoun

   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).

3. triagenoun

   The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.

4. triageverb

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

5. Etymology: From triage, from trier

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1. triage

   Triage is a process of prioritizing patients or cases based on the severity of their condition or urgency of the situation in order to allocate limited resources effectively for the best possible outcome. It is commonly used in medical settings during emergencies or mass casualty situations, but the concept can also be applied in other fields such as disaster response, project management, or customer support.

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1. Triage

   Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately. The term comes from the French verb trier, meaning to separate, sift or select. Triage may result in determining the order and priority of emergency treatment, the order and priority of emergency transport, or the transport destination for the patient. Triage may also be used for patients arriving at the emergency department, or telephoning medical advice systems, among others. This article deals with the concept of triage as it occurs in medical emergencies, including the prehospital setting, disasters, and emergency room treatment. The term Triage may have originated during the Napoleonic Wars from the work of Dominique Jean Larrey. The term was used further during World War I by French doctors treating the battlefield wounded at the aid stations behind the front. Those responsible for the removal of the wounded from a battlefield or their care afterwards would divide the victims into three categories: ⁕Those who are likely to live, regardless of what care they receive;

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Triage

   trī′āj, n. what is picked out, esp. broken coffee-beans.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Triage

   The sorting out and classification of patients or casualties to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment.

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Anagrams for triage »

1. aigret

2. gaiter

3. tairge

How to pronounce triage?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of triage in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of triage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of triage in a Sentence

1. Nanette Wenger:

   They're looking really at the correlation between the emergency room doctor, who was really the triage doctor who decides to admit the patient to the hospital, and it's a very limited look, i'm not sure what we can glean from it.

2. David Bergstein:

   Too often the norm in a campaign is that voter protection staff come on the ground in September or even sometimes in October unfortunately, and they're sort of on-hand to triage issues that come up, on Election Day or leading up to Election Day, that model is not the best one to be utilizing particularly this cycle.

3. Alan Braynin:

   A lot of hospitals have closed down other units, and scrambled staff to triage patients coming in for testing and for other purposes.

4. Rachael Rollins:

   At my request, Suffolk County prosecutors used the discretion constitutionally allocated to the executive branch to triage cases and use our resources most effectively to protect public safety, make no mistake : some people were appropriately arraigned and will be held accountable for actions that put the safety of the public and law enforcement at risk.

5. Holly Wilson:

   These do not have to compete but can be used by a hospital ethics committee, or triage officer. However, all of them have problems and are unjust ways to distribute health care. That is why mitigation is so important.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=triage
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Triage
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=triage
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=triage