undertriages

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A form of undertriage — An inaccurately low prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being less severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as strokes or heart attacks not recognized and treated quickly enough.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of undertriage
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of undertriage
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