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A tertiary referral hospital (also called a tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center, or tertiary care center, or tertiary center) is a hospital that provides tertiary care, which is health care from specialists in a large hospital after referral from primary care and secondary care. Beyond that general definition, there is no precise narrower or more formal definition, but tertiary centers usually include the following:

  • a major hospital that usually has a full complement of services including pediatrics, obstetrics, general medicine, gynecology, various branches of surgery and psychiatry or
  • a specialty hospital dedicated to specific sub-specialty care (pediatric centers, Oncology centers, psychiatric hospitals). Patients will often be referred from smaller hospitals to a tertiary hospital for major operations, consultations with sub-specialists and when sophisticated intensive care facilities are required.

Some examples of tertiary referral center care are:

  • Head and neck oncology
  • Perinatology (high-risk pregnancies)
  • Neonatology (high-risk newborn care)
  • PET scans
  • Organ transplantation
  • Trauma surgery
  • High-dose chemotherapy for cancer cases
  • Growth and puberty disorders
  • Neurology and neurosurgery
  • In the UK, cases of poisoning.

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See also

  • Secondary hospital

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Source of article : Wikipedia