triaging
Ranking by severity
Triaging is the process of sorting cases by urgency or priority.
The term comes from medical contexts where patients are assessed and ranked by how immediately they need treatment: The nurse was triaging patients in the emergency room.
The word now applies broadly to any situation requiring systematic prioritization: I spent the morning triaging my inbox.
Formal evaluation of worth
- severityIntensity of sternness
- acuitySharpness of mind or sight
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- prognosisPredicted disease course
stabilization · intervention · evaluation · classification · stratification · urgency · condition · symptoms
Ordered position assignment
- categorizationArranging into groups
- allocationDistribution of shares
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- precedenceSuperior rank or importance
sequencing · sorting · tiering · queue · backlog · filtering · workload · tickets
assessment
Formal evaluation of worth
prognosis · stabilization · intervention · evaluation · classification · stratification · urgency · condition · symptoms · vitals
ranking
Ordered position assignment
- categorizationArranging into groups
- allocationDistribution of shares
- schedulingAssigning times to events
precedence · sequencing · sorting · tiering · queue · backlog · filtering · workload · tickets · inbox
ambulance
Emergency medical transport
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
wounds · bleeding · ER · dispatch · 911 · medevac · injuries · accident · rescue · stretcher
- organizingorganizing, categorizing, grouping, structuring, classifying
- prioritizationranking, priority list, ordering, urgency, urgent
- assessmentevaluating, test, analyzing, exam, assessing
- online actionsposting, click, commenting, tap, replying
- postponingdeferring, delaying, postponing, putting off, rescheduling
triagingtreating
Dealing with medically
operating · healing · curing · medicating · intervening
triagingneglecting
Failing to attend to
ignoring · abandoning · overlooking · disregarding · chaos