noun / verb
triage
TREE-ahzh/ˈtriːɑːʒ/
Sorting cases by urgency or importance to decide what needs attention first.
The nurse triages arriving patients so the sickest receive care first.
Etymology
Picking out and sorting originally concerned quality. In medical use, the sorting became the grouping of wounded soldiers by injury severity—the basis of today's prioritization by urgency.
In context
you have to use them very wisely and that is where triage comes in handy specifically the color code tag system because it's going to tell us which patients should be seen first
More examples
- During triage, the team identifies patients who need immediate treatment.
- We triage customer complaints before assigning them to staff.
- A quick triage of the repair requests puts the gas leak first.
Forms
triage · triages · triaged · triaging
Similar words
- prioritization
- Emphasizes ranking by importance, not necessarily urgency or immediate need.
- sorting
- Can organize by any feature, not just priority or urgency.