Tertiary referral hospital
- Tertiary referral hospital
A tertiary referral hospital, tertiary referral center or tertiary care center is a term without a formal definition which in the United States generally refers to:
*a major hospital that usually has a full complement of services including pediatrics, general medicine, various branches of surgery and psychiatry or
*a specialty hospital dedicated to specific subspecialty care (pediatric centers, Oncology centers, psychiatric hospitals). Patients will often be referred from smaller hospitals to a tertiary hospital for major operations, consultations with subspecialists and when sophisticated intensive care facilities are required.
In both the United Kingdom and the United States, a tertiary referral hospital can also mean any hospital that provides tertiary care.
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
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