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The Economics of Treating Varicose Veins*
1 Department of Social Administration, London School of Economics Houghton Street, London, W.C.2.
2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School London, S.E.I.
Requests for reprints may be addressed to Dr. J. M. Weddell.
Piachaud, D. (Dept. of Social Administration, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, W.C.2), and Weddell, J. M. The economics of treating varicose veins. Int. J. Epid. 1972, 1 : 287294.
The results at three years after treatment show no difference between the two methods of treatment. The estimates of costs to the Health Service and the community are greater for surgical treatment than injection-compression sclerotherapy. On the basis of these results it would benefit the patient, the Health Service and the community if the majority of patients were treated in out-patients by injection-compression sclerotherapy.
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