Impact of radiofrequency ablation for patients with varicose veins on the budget of the German statutory health insurance system

Table 10 Means, standard errors and distributions of input parameters varied in the probabilistic sensitivity analysis

	Mean	Standard error	Distribution
Initial intervention population
2013-2017	261,263	2,500	normal
Monthly survival probability
	0.99944	0.0001	normal
Monthly probability of recurrence after initial and 2nd interventional treatment
Surgery	0.008331	0.00164	beta
ClosureFast	0.008331	0.00176	beta
UGFS	0.009141	0.00105	beta
Probability of requiring top-up treatment after initial and 2nd interventional treatment
Surgery	0.05000	0.00021	uniform
ClosureFast	0.05000	0.00021	uniform
UGFS	0.20000	0.00333	uniform
Probability of receiving 2nd interventional treatment
	0.75000	0.02083	uniform
Weighted mean of in- and outpatient interventional treatment costs (per procedure)
Surgery	1,270.88 €	190.63 €	gamma
ClosureFast	1,211.80 €	181.77 €	gamma
UGFS	56.43 €	8.46 €	gamma
Monthly costs of compression therapy
	11.45 €	1.14 €	gamma
ClosureFast market uptake (in percent points)
2013	0.10000	0.00083	uniform
2014-2017	0.05000	0.00021	uniform

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