Update Notes
MEPS HC-026D: 1998 Hospital Inpatient Stays File
Update #4: 11/22/13
STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #3, 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
5 = CIRCUMCISION
6 = CORONARY BYPASS
7 = D AND C (DILATION AND CURETTAGE)
8 = DENTAL SURGERY 3 33,266
9 = GALLBLADDER SURGERY (CHOLECYSTECTOMY
10 = HERNIA REPAIR
11 = HYSTERECTOMY
12 = JOINT (HIP/KNEE) REPLACEMENT SURGERY
13 = MASTECTOMY/LUMPECTOMY
14 = PACEMAKER INSERTION
15 = PLASTIC/RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
16 = PROSTATE SURGERY (PROSTATECTOMY)
17 = SPINAL DISC SURGERY (SLIPPED/PROLAPSED)
18 = SURGICAL SETTING OF BROKEN BONE
19 = THYROID SURGERY (THYROIDECTOMY)
20 = TISSUE BIOPSY
21 = 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: 1 = YES
2 = NO.
NOTE: For the year 2000
set of event files, the variable SURGPROC will be renamed
to MAINSURG on the Hospital Inpatient Stays File.
Update #3, 12/13/02
The Files 1 and 2 were updated on 02/11/02,
to correct for the following errors:
- Files 1 and 2 were updated
to correct the length setting of ASCII file. Note:
this error did not affect the SAS Transport version of these
files, nor the SAS data files constructed from the
ASCII version of these files.
- File 1 was updated to
correct the value for ERHEVIDX .
- The variable ERHSEVID
was deleted from File 1.
- File 2 was updated to
correct for the rounded value of the variable WTDPER98,
resulting in very minor difference in values. Note: this
error did not affect the ASCII version of this file,
nor the SAS data files constructed from the ASCII version
of this file.
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