In medicine, there are four levels of care: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. The levels of care refer to the complexity of the medical cases that healthcare providers treat and the ...

The term “tertiary” may be a useful way to categorize a university hospital or specialist centre, but when the term is used to describe the care given to a patient, it is a vacuous construct. When ...

Women with a higher-risk or complicated multiple pregnancy have a consultant from a tertiary level fetal medicine centre involved in their care. Collaborative care between local services and tertiary ...