overtriage
overtriage noun: an inaccurately high prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being more severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as wait times in emergency departments.
Noun
overtriage (countable and uncountable, plural overtriages)
- An inaccurately high prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being more severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as wait times in emergency departments.
- As emergency medicine doctors, we regularly give medical advice to family and close friends when they get sick or are injured and don't know what to do. In a matter of moments, we triage, diagnose, and assemble a logical plan, whatever the issue may be. […] Frankly, it's a service everyone should...2024 January 31, Jesse M. Pines, Robert D. Glatter, “Commentary: Why Everyone Needs Their Own Emergency Medicine Doctor: How Emerging Models Come Close to Making This Reality”, in Medscape...
- Antonyms:
- undertriage
Verb
overtriage (third-person singular simple present overtriages, present participle overtriaging, simple past and past participle overtriaged)
- To make such a misguided triage assessment.
- Antonyms:
- undertriage
Antonyms of overtriage
Forms of overtriage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | overtriages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | overtriages |
| present participle | overtriaging |
| past participle | overtriaged |
| past | overtriaged |
Origin of overtriage
From over- + triage.
Questions about overtriage
- What does overtriage mean?
- Overtriage means an inaccurately high prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being more severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as wait times in emergency departments.
- What part of speech is overtriage?
- Overtriage can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of overtriage?
- The plural of overtriage is overtriages.
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