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Rankine’s new attempt at triage focuses on her long friendship with a person identified only as “the theorist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
A new triage tool will ask patients a series of questions, and will use the responses to direct them to a GP appointment, pharmacy, A&E, community service or offer self-care advice.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
A hospital hiring triage nurses, for example, could have candidates put on headsets that transport them to a simulated disaster site to see how they figure out who imminently needs attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
He has been lauded—even by Lander—for creating an emergency triage center for immigrants in his office in lower Manhattan near an ICE facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
A triage nurse found her condition stable and classified her as “high priority.”
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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The company developed a metric called “Mean Time to Adapt,” which measures how quickly an organization identifies, triages and fixes vulnerabilities once discovered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The team preps trees when possible ahead of advancing flames and triages those that have faced the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
For every patient that telemedicine triages, avoiding the need for an in-person appointment, another slot is opened up for someone who may have needed it more.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020
He triages each based on how solvable they are.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2015
In the months following the shooting, university counselors provided more than 700 mental health triages, spoke to classes, visited survivors in the hospital, fielded 120 calls from parents and provided other services.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2012
All the assessment bays where patients are triaged on arrival fill up quickly and are in constant use for the next five hours.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Diaz triaged resources, cutting specialty units in favor of patrol.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
Maui County Fire Chief Brad Ventura at a news conference spoke of firefighting resources having to be triaged Tuesday to “what was most important at the time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
"This is the only hospital still accepting injured and we're getting more every day. Some go into surgery, others get triaged, but the capacity is very low," he said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023
Many were triaged in the war zone and then treated at a military medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, before being flown to the United States.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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They found that DeepSeek handled these tasks as well as Anthropic’s Sonnet and was good at email triaging in particular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
One episode of 1990s BBC series Cardiac Arrest opens in a hectic triaging unit.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
The purpose is “making sure the processes and procedures for triaging and managing inmate patients are up to standard,” she told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
A quick way to measure methane leaks is essential for triaging newly discovered UOWs, and also for efforts to plug known wells.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
The lightness he'd felt fled him, and he began the rotten business of triaging his in-box.
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory
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