An organized process that matches needs with available resources according to a priority scheme designed to achieve the end objective (i.e., goal) of the specific triage system. In healthcare emergency management, triage usually refers to sorting of patients based upon matching their healthcare needs with available healthcare resources, with priority assigned using specific criteria called a triage algorithm. The algorithm is designed to achieve an objective, such as transporting the most critical casualties first, doing the greatest good for the greatest number or other objective