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If immediate treatment is successful, the patient may improve ( although this may be temporary ) and this improvement may allow the patient to be categorized to a lower priority in the short term.

Triage should be a continuous process and categories should be checked regularly to ensure that the priority remains correct.

A trauma score is invariably taken when the victim first comes into hospital and subsequent trauma scores taken to see any changes in the victim's physiological parameters.

If a record is maintained, the receiving hospital doctor can see a trauma score time series from the start of the incident, which may allow definitive treatment earlier.