triage
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- noun
- /triˈɑːʒ/
- Specialized
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triaje
- We do, however, employ a modified form of triage, ranking patients according to priority and need.
- triage of patients
- triage system
- primary care triage
Do we just use some abbreviations to help short of hand, in particular for triage notes?
- Do we just use some abbreviations to help short of hand, in particular for triage notes?
- And then they took me in triage and then gave me something and then it was like no pain.
- We hear horrible stories about people dying needlessly due to triage and that's a very terrifying story.
- And then they, they do a triage and the, you know, they like I say, determined, you know, I was not serious, seriously wounded.
- We're taught medical triage, we're taught land navigation, we're taught social skills, we're taught mind hacks, body hacks.
- There's often this framing of a triage system where some countries in the world might be redeemable and maybe we should help those countries to feed themselves.
- But I'm still operating day-to-day, like I'm in that triage situation.
- And there's, yeah, there's like a triage.
Examples
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The hospital's triage process ensures that those in the greatest need receive help first.
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The accurate assessment and diagnosis of injuries are fundamental for triage and treatment.
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If you can walk, move to the triage area.
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This is triage, like in an emergency room.
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This is a triage area.
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I need you at the triage.
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We just gotta get her to triage.
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I got to be in triage and ask people their symptoms and write them down before they see the doctors.
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They have actual triage going on where they have to select people who have the best chance of surviving.
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There need to be sufficient numbers in the triage team to assess patients without unacceptable waits.
Academic text (2015)
How Prioritized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Triage comes from the French word trier, which means 'to sort' or 'to pick'. People first used it for sorting goods and later for choosing which wounded people needed help first on battlefields, so triage today means sorting patients or resources by how urgently they need care.