triage

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Local residents were “circling the school, trying to protect the students. It is like I am doing emotional triage on some type of battlefield, right here in my own city,” she explained.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Limbic, a U.K.- and U.S.-based mental-health company, has created an AI platform called Limbic Access, a chatbot that clinical practices use for intake, triage and initial patient assessment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"We cannot possibly conserve everything, so we have to triage and decide how to allocate limited resources towards what we think are the highest priorities," Chan said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

The trust says it has now introduced a new telephone triage service with experienced midwives "purely tasked with making decisions as to when to bring women into hospital".

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

The ICU with the lingering burns and grievously wounded patients got to be too difficult, and she asked to be transferred back to the ER to do triage.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge