The treatment of varicose veins of the lower limbs involves various approaches: a conservative approach based on hygiene and containment measures; a surgical approach, which in most cases involves ligation or stripping of the varicose veins; and a non-surgical approach based on sclerotherapy or endolaser thermal ablation of the occluded vessel.
The choice of each type of treatment requires a risk-benefit assessment, often entrusted to the physician. If a surgical approach is chosen, the physician must determine whether there are indications for ligation or stripping of the lower limb veins.
Calculating the “Hospitalization for ligation or stripping of the lower limb veins” indicator measures the variability of hospitalization rates across geographic areas. Since systematic variations in the indications for ligation or stripping across the areas considered are unlikely, the indicator helps identify potential over- or under-utilization of the surgical technique.
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