16169 IUPAC Gold Book - triage 10.1351/goldbook.16169 16169 current 1 Process for sorting people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Note: Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated. System used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, to those most likely to benefit from it. Process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority. PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1329 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16169/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16169/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16169/plain Citation: 'triage' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.16169 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-15T03:52:22+00:00