triage
IPA: trˈaɪɪdʒ
noun
- Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
- (medicine) 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).
- (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
- (rail transport, military, Britain) A marshalling yard, classification yard.
verb
- (chiefly medicine) To subject to triage; to prioritize.
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Examples of "triage" in Sentences
- Moving them to a triage center.
- Again, see the triage procedure.
- Simple triage and rapid treatment.
- Assessing the risk of suicide at triage.
- There is triage for every day in the ER.
- Taxonomic triage and the poverty of Phylogeny.
- If there is no triage then I will jump back in.
- There was some duplication with the Triage page.
- There are dedicated beds for emergency and triage.
- OSBORN: Now, Mr. Langford, we've heard the term triage a lot this morning.
- Information can be obtained and added onto the triage tag throughout the triage.
- The purpose of triage is to quickly assess your child's needs and to begin planning his/her care.
- We then go through a process we call triage: Which of the ideas we generated are really worth pursuing?
- And then I got sent up to what they called triage, because I'd hurt my back and no one had a phone up there.
- RICHARD CODY, U.S. ARMY VICE CHIEF OF S.AFF: For the last six years, we've been repairing these barracks, in keeping what I call triage on them so they are safe, clean and livable.
- GENERAL RICHARD CODY, U.S. ARMY VICE CHIEF OF S.AFF: For the last six years, we have been repairing these barracks and keeping what I call triage on them, so that they're safe, clean and livable.
- The spending by outside groups affiliated with Democrats is further evidence that the party is in triage mode, trying to fix the problems of the Coakley campaign through an major influx of cash and commercials.
- For the last six years, we've been repairing these barracks in keeping what I call triage on them so that they're safe, clean, and livable, but they're certainly not the barracks we want these great soldiers to live in.
- "I was in what I call triage mode, doing the most urgent tasks at any given time, whether that was distribution, advertising, reporting, writing, editing, or layout, but nothing was getting all the time or attention it needed," he says.
- Those predictions come as Democrats seem to be in triage mode -- spending money on people like Rep. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Ron Klein (Fla.) and Gary Peters (Mich.) seemingly in hopes of limiting a blowout loss nationally rather than holding the majority.