title: [What is the difference between ambulatory care and inpatient varicose vein patients?].
abstract: The operation of varicose veins seems to be safe and simple. Nevertheless, serious complications are possible requiring skill and experience in vascular surgery. A clinical treatment in these cases ist mandatory. Also extensive varicose veins and cases with comorbidity have to be operated in the hospital. Outpatient treatment is often less extensive and not sufficient ("quicker and sicker") and for that not cheaper than a clinical stay. Therefore operative treatment during a hospital stay must be possible even in times with shortness for money as regulated in the guidelines of the German Society for Vascular Surgery.
authors.affiliation: Gefässchirurgische Klinik, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Mühlheim, Wertgasse 30, 45466 Mülheim-Ruhr.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Balzer
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000191:economics*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D012307:Risk Factors; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics* / Q000601:surgery