Undertriage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Undertriage is a noun meaning To make such a misguided triage assessment.
Meaning
To make such a misguided triage assessment.
More Meanings
- (medicine) An inaccurately low prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being less severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as strokes or heart attacks not recognized and treated quickly enough.
Example Sentences
However, our prior study on undertriage of major trauma patients indicated that a significant proportion of trauma patients with an ISS = 75 survived.
Word Forms
- undertriages
- undertriaging
- undertriaged
Antonyms for undertriage
Common opposites include overtriage.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include underassessment, underpredicting, underdetection, undervaluation, underdosage, underapplication.
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