referral centre

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meaningsofreferralandcentre

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referral
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈfɜː.rəl/us
/rɪˈfɝː.əl/
the act of directing someone to a different place or person for information, help, or action, often to a person or group with more knowledge ...
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centre
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tər/us
/ˈsen.t̬ɚ/
the middle point ...
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(Definition ofreferralandcentrefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Surgery is being reserved for more severe cases of pulmonary stenosis, resistant to balloon dilation, which may potentially be more safely carried out in a tertiaryreferralcentrein children.
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It serves my constituency and is an important acute hospital and a regional tertiaryreferralcentre.
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It is important to bear it in mind that the trust is a major acute and tertiaryreferralcentre.
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It is a district general hospital, a specialistreferralcentreand a teaching hospital.
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They have a particular responsibility for providing a research and development capability, postgraduate teaching and training, and a tertiaryreferralcentrefor difficult cases.
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It will be areferralcentrefor adjacent areas in basic medical and surgical specialities, including neurology, neurosurgery, renal transplants and haemophilia.
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There is also a smaller payment by the regional health authority in respect of a teaching hospital's function as a tertiaryreferralcentrefor the region.
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The hospital is today the busiest in the district and serves as areferralcentre.
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The new hospital complex was designed to serve as a tertiaryreferralcentrefor specialised medical services at the national level.
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It is also a majorreferralcentrefor many of the surrounding districts.
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Referral characteristics were a possible confounder because the hospitals used to collect the sample were tertiary referral centres.
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It is the nationalreferralcentrefor complicated pregnancies, premature and sick infants.
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The authors did note that the survival of infants treated at referral centres was much better than for the group as a whole.
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The above data, derived from single referral centres, is likely to be biased in favour of infant survival.
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It is a tertiaryreferralcentrefor neurosurgery, and is a national centre of excellence for gestational trophoblastic disease.
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The hospital served as a tertiaryreferralcentrefor most disciplines.
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As a regionalreferralcentrefor specialty medicine, it is one of the worlds popular medical tourism destinations.
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It is a tertiaryreferralcentrefor obstetric patients, meaning it deals with women with high risk medical conditions and babies of extreme prematurity.
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It is the regional hospital and serves as the mainreferralcentrefor all medical conditions that require specialist attention.
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