Overtriage
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Overtriage is a noun meaning To make such a misguided triage assessment.
Meaning
To make such a misguided triage assessment.
More Meanings
- (medicine) 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.
Word Forms
- overtriages
- overtriaging
- overtriaged
Antonyms for overtriage
Common opposites include undertriage.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include polytraumatism, overmedicalization, overdiagnosis, overhealing, polytrauma, overmedicalisation.
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