Health Care

Tertiary Health Care

Care of a highly technical and specialized nature, provided in a medical center, usually one affiliated with a university, for patients with unusually severe, complex, or uncommon health problems.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Care of a highly technical and specialized nature, provided in a medical center, usually one affiliated with a university, for patients with unusually severe, complex, or uncommon health problems.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Tertiary Care
  • Tertiary Healthcare
  • Health Care, Tertiary
  • Healthcare, Tertiary

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

TERTIARY CARE CENTERS is also available

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History Note

2013

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Tree Numbers

  1. N04w.452.758.849w.887
  2. N05.300w.787

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Tertiary Health Care. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D063128. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D063128
  2. Tertiary Health Care. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70363738