TRIAGE Definition & Meaning

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triage

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noun

the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
the determination of priorities for action:
She began her workday with a triage of emails.

adjective

of, relating to, or performing the task of triage:
a triage officer.

verb (used with object)

triaged, triaging.

to act on or in by triage:
to triage a crisis.

triage

/ ˌtriːˈɑːʒ; ˈtraɪ-; ˈtriːˌɑːʒ /

noun

(in a hospital) the principle or practice of sorting emergency patients into categories of priority for treatment
the principle or practice of sorting casualties in battle or disaster into categories of priority for treatment
the principle or practice of allocating limited resources, as of food or foreign aid, on a basis of expediency rather than according to moral principles or the needs of the recipients

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of triage¹

First recorded in 1925–30; from French: “a sorting,” from tri(er) “to sort” ( try ) + -age -age

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of triage¹

C18 (in the sense: sorting (goods) according to quality): from French; see try , -age

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Vizzachero said there’s now less money and personnel to carry out the survey, and his colleagues haven’t been able to triage the work he left behind.

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But now, Prof MacMahon and the Mater's AI research fellow Paul Banahan have trained a trial AI model to create a "synthetic MRI" from CT scans, to immediately triage patients with suspected spinal injuries.

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Last month BBC Scotland News revealed that a whistleblowing investigation had found mothers and newborn babies came to harm because of rota shortages and a "toxic" culture at the ERI's obstetrics triage and assessment unit.

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Dr. Rajendram Rajnarayanan of the New York Institute of Technology campus in Jonesboro, Ark., told Salon to think of testing for influenza A or B as like a “triage testing.”

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The band of locals, some of whom have stayed put despite an evacuation order, describe their mission as “house triage.”

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