Over-triage equals?

Over-triage equals?

• A. Non emergency response
• B. Routine response
• C. Emergency response
• D. Cancelled response

Answer: (C)

Over-triage means assigning a higher level of urgency to a call than the patient’s condition actually requires. In practice, that results in an emergency response being dispatched when a routine or non-emergency response would have sufficed. The other options describe lower-priority actions or cancellation, which don’t reflect the idea of escalating beyond what’s needed. Understanding this helps ensure the system uses resources appropriately—responding quickly when truly urgent, but not over-committing emergency resources unnecessarily.

Over-triage means assigning a higher level of urgency to a call than the patient’s condition actually requires. In practice, that results in an emergency response being dispatched when a routine or non-emergency response would have sufficed. The other options describe lower-priority actions or cancellation, which don’t reflect the idea of escalating beyond what’s needed. Understanding this helps ensure the system uses resources appropriately—responding quickly when truly urgent, but not over-committing emergency resources unnecessarily.