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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. ==See also== *secondary hospital 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「tertiary referral hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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