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Triage means sorting the injured or urgent cases by need when resources or time are limited.
means The process of sorting people or problems by urgency so that limited time or resources go where they matter most first.
from From French trier, 'to sort' or 'to sift' — originally used for sorting wool or coffee beans by grade. The medical sense took hold through French military doctors sorting wartime casualties by severity, and the word rode that usage into English, where it later spread from battlefields into ERs, inboxes, and anywhere too many problems arrive at once.
- origin
- From French trier, meaning to sort
- napoleonic roots
- Pioneered by battlefield surgeons sorting wounded soldiers
- dark logic
- Sometimes the sickest patient gets treated last
- everyday use
- Now applied to inboxes, bug reports, and emergencies alike