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TERTIARY MEDICAL CARE [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

Care requiring highly specialized attention, and which can usually only be provided in centres specially designed for the purpose and by physicians trained in the area of specialization.

OBS

HOHEA: Hogarth, J. Glossary of health care terminology. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1978. (Public Health in Europe, No. 4).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
CONT

La atención primaria se relaciona estrechamente con la atención médica secundaria especializada y con la terciaria altamente especializada en los policlínicos y los hospitales, donde las avanzadas mediciones de diagnóstico se llevan a cabo junto con los complicados tratamientos quirúrgicos y médicos.

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