Triage - English meaning
Triage – definitions in English dictionary
nounThe preliminary assessment of patients or casualties in order to determine the urgency of their need for treatment and the nature of treatment required.
Usage examples:
The clinic will be dedicated to the triage and treatment of patients with respiratory illnesses
verb(in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.
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A triage nurseverbDecide the order of treatment of (patients or casualties).
Usage examples:
Victims were triaged by paramedics before being transported to hospitals
nounThe process of quickly examining patients who are taken to a hospital in order to decide which ones are the most seriously ill and must be treated first
Usage examples:
The team's main job is to treat trauma victims at the scene of a disaster and perform triage., the …
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Word origin
early 18th century (in the sense ‘the action of sorting items according to quality’): from French, from trier ‘separate out’. The current sense dates from the 1930s, from the military system
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