At present, according to the technical level, equipment conditions, management level and scale, China's medical institutions are roughly divided into three levels (each level is divided into A, B, C and other levels), and different levels of hospitals have their own characteristics to adapt to diseases.
Tertiary hospital: it is a primary hospital that directly provides prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services to the community. In addition to community hospitals, they are generally township hospitals, which can provide convenient and economical basic medical services. Generally speaking, relatively simple common diseases or diseases that have been diagnosed in 3A hospitals and are in stable condition are suitable for treatment in 3A hospitals. Such as common cold, fever, cough, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, constipation, stomach trouble, diagnosed hypertension and diabetes, sequelae of cerebrovascular accident, joint sprain, skin laceration, common facial diseases and stomatological diseases.
Secondary hospital: a regional hospital that can provide comprehensive medical services for multiple communities and undertake certain teaching and research tasks. For most common and frequently-occurring diseases, as long as the condition is not complicated and the diagnosis can be clear, and it is not particularly urgent or serious, you can choose secondary hospitals such as regional, district and county hospitals.
Tertiary hospital: a hospital above the regional level that provides high-level specialized medical and health services for several regions and performs higher teaching and scientific research tasks. Generally speaking, tertiary hospitals are the affiliated hospitals of medical universities and provincial people's hospitals at the top of China Hospital, as well as the affiliated hospitals of PLA Military Medical University and general hospitals of major military regions. In ordinary small and medium-sized cities, people's hospitals (or traditional Chinese medicine hospitals) and PLA hospitals stationed in the city are generally used.
Tertiary hospitals represent the highest level of medical technology in China, and they are also big hospitals in people's minds. Generally speaking, it is best to contact the emergency center or go directly to the tertiary hospital for extremely urgent and critical diseases; Patients with chronic diseases and incurable diseases who can't be diagnosed or have poor curative effect in primary and secondary hospitals should also go to tertiary hospitals for treatment.