Definition:
Any hospital, including a district hospital, will receive referrals from lower levels of care. Indeed, referral can be defined as any process in which health care providers at lower levels of the health system, who lack the skills, the facilities, or both to manage a given clinical condition, seek the assistance of providers who are better equipped or specially trained to guide them in managing or to take over responsibility for a particular episode of a clinical condition in a patient (Al-Mazrou, Al-Shehri, and Rao 1990). Furthermore, higher-level hospitals in developing countries do not treat only referred patients; tertiary hospitals are frequently the first point of contact with health services for many patients.

Differentiating referral hospitals from district hospitals, therefore, requires consideration of the different resources used by different levels of hospital. Such a differentiation will tend to revolve around three features—the availability of increasingly specialized personnel, of more sophisticated diagnostic technologies, and of more advanced therapeutic technologies—that permit the diagnosis and treatment of increasingly complex conditions.

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in addition to serving local residents, the facility will act as a referral hospital for some 800,000 people from neighboring districts. ofid.org
[...] los residentes locales, y funcionará también como hospital de referencia para unas 800.000 personas de distritos vecinos.

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Apr 1, 2021 — Sl. Name & address of the Hospital, Discipline for referral, Telephone / FAX No./E-mail. 1. Add Annex Health Care Pvt. Ltd.College Square
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It serves as the most senior referral hospital in the Kenya health system. The KNH campus area also hosts the oldest medical school in Kenya – the College ...

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Sep 2, 2020 — Country's Senior Referral Hospital, New Delhi, where he. Most Politicians was admitted for a Brain Surgery

A tertiary referral hospital (also called a tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center, tertiary care center, or tertiary center) is a hospital that provides tertiary care, which is a level of health care obtained from specialists in a large hospital after referral from the providers of 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.
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