overtriage
Meanings
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.
verb
- To make such a misguided triage assessment.
Word forms
Etymology
From over- + triage.
Antonyms
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