The term "triage" means sorting out. Medically, it's a process used to prioritize who needs emergency medical attention first, whether injured or sick people or disaster survivors. Patients are ...

Three triage systems are currently in common use in the developed world: START, Careflight, and the Triage Sieve and Sort. START was devised in the mid 1990s in the United States, and has since been ...

"These protocols are designed to sort out patients according to their degree of severity, to ensure that they are seen in a timely manner and allocated appropriate resources. "Triage processes are ...