overtriage (English, noun)
expansion: overtriage (countable and uncountable, plural overtriages)
Senses:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: overtriages
tags: plural