overtriage

== English == === Etymology === From over- +‎ triage. === Noun === overtriage (countable and uncountable, plural overtriages) (medicine) An inaccurately high prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being more severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as wait times in emergency departments. Antonym: undertriage === Verb === overtriage (third-person singular simple present overtriages, present participle overtriaging, simple past and past participle overtriaged) To make such a misguided triage assessment. Antonym: undertriage === Anagrams === graveteiro, revigorate