Update Notes
EPS HC-16G: 1997
Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File
Update #2: 11/22/13
SPSS and STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #1: 12/13/02
The data user/analyst should note
that the variable SURGPROC on the 1996 to 1999 Hospital Inpatient
Stays event files is a different variable from the one with
the same name on the 1996 to 1999 Emergency Room Visits, Office-Based
Medical Provider Visits, and Outpatient Visits event files. This is
indicated by the different labels and formatted values for these
variables, which are as follows.
On the Hospital Inpatient Stays
file:
SURGPROC has label = MAIN SURGICAL
PROCEDURE, and these formatted
values:
| 1 = |
APPENDECTOMY |
| 2 = |
ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY (VISUAL OF JOINTS |
| 3 = |
CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION |
| 4 = |
CATARACT SURGERY |
| 6 = |
CIRCUMCISION |
| 7 = |
CORONARY BYPASS |
| 8 = |
D AND C (DILATION AND CURETTAGE) |
| 9 = |
DENTAL SURGERY 3 33,266 |
| 10 = |
GALLBLADDER SURGERY (CHOLECYSTECTOMY) |
| 11 = |
HERNIA REPAIR |
| 12 = |
HYSTERECTOMY |
| 13 = |
JOINT (HIP/KNEE) REPLACEMENT SURGERY |
| 14 = |
MASTECTOMY/LUMPECTOMY |
| 15 = |
PACEMAKER INSERTION |
| 16 = |
PLASTIC/RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY |
| 17 = |
PROSTATE SURGERY (PROSTATECTOMY) |
| 18 = |
SPINAL DISC SURGERY (SLIPPED/PROLAPSED) |
| 19 = |
SURGICAL SETTING OF BROKEN BONE |
| 20 = |
THYROID SURGERY (THYROIDECTOMY) |
| 21 = |
TISSUE BIOPSY |
| 22 = |
TONSILLECTOMY |
| 91 |
OTHER |
On the Emergency Room Visits,
Office-Based Medical Provider Visits, and Outpatient
Visits event files:
SURGPROC has label = WAS SURG PROC
PERFORMED ON P THIS VISIT, and formatted values:
NOTE: For the year 2000 set of
event files, the variable SURGPROC will be renamed to MAINSURG on the
Hospital Inpatient Stays File.
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