Health Care

Triage

The sorting out and classification of patients or casualties to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The sorting out and classification of patients or casualties to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment.

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Classification

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Triages

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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History Note

91(76); was see under EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 1980-90; was see under EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES 1976-79

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Previous Indexing

  • Emergencies (1966-1975)
  • Emergency Service, Hospital (1966-1975)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N02.421.297w.900w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Triage. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014218. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014218
  2. Triage. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage
  3. Triage. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q780067