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He then explained that by swiping left, calls are placed in the stack requiring further triage by a nurse or paramedic, but a swipe right means they're in the wait for an ambulance.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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
Nearby buildings have been evacuated, and multiple ambulances and a triage area are set up in case of any injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
He said Target’s turnaround appeared to be working, but that it needed to “move on from triage to full-scale growth.”
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Farmer has constructed his life around this second kind of triage.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
But the BMA says patients are being put at risk because urgent requests are not being triaged and practices are overwhelmed.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
Washington State Ferries triaged the issue by ranking routes in order of importance — some combination of total ridership and significance to the community.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 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
A triaging system meant to house the most needy forced housing providers to deal with more burdensome tenants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
They say state-of-the-art large language models like GPT-4 could be useful for providing eye-related advice, diagnosis, and management suggestions in well-controlled contexts, like triaging patients, or where access to specialist healthcare professionals is limited.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
“Our teams are assisting in triaging emergency cases and managing stabilized patients admitted in the medical tents,” MSF said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
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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