TRIAGE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of triage in English

(Definition of triage from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of triage

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The nursing profession is enhancing its role and developing new tasks: nurse practitioners, nurse consultants, triaging and handling casualty.
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I appreciate that it is being rebuilt at the moment, that it is improving, and that most patients are "triaged", or analysed, by a nurse within five minutes of arriving.
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However, only two organizations used nurse triage, both large urban co-ops.
Likewise, it differs from battlefield triage in that the participants neither agreed nor expected to be involved in lifethreatening events.
During this type of triage, clinicians decide who to save when not all can be saved.
A decision is made at this triage meeting as to the best course of action in each case.
Triage procedures, following the concept of equity, are designed to provide equivalent treatment for those with equivalent needs - that is, to treat similar patients similarly.
They defined adherence to conscience in terms of triage.
Of the 381 patients referred to triage, 319 were admitted and 62 were refused admission.
The first is the one between conventional triage and mass casualty triage.
Several terms, including "triage," "rationing," and "allocation," are used to refer to the distribution of scarce resources in different healthcare contexts.
Because hypothetical consent to triage policies can be legitimately presumed, a triage allocation of emergency services is not likely to undermine social stability.
Triage is, therefore, not entirely compatible with utilitarianism, nor is it consistent with either fair equality of opportunity or prioritarianism.
Note that age, in and of itself, is not a triage criterion.
Over the history of making these allocation decisions, the transplant community has moved toward triage as the most appropriate standard for allocation.
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Translations of triage

in Chinese (Traditional)
(醫院)檢傷分類(以確定哪些病人情況最為嚴重須優先處理), 情況鑒別分類(以確定哪些問題最為嚴重須優先處理)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(医院)病人鉴别分类(以确定哪些病人情况最为严重须优先处理), 情况鉴别分类(以确定哪些问题最为严重须优先处理)…
in Spanish
selección, triage, triar…
in Portuguese
triagem, seleção…
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