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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC010F CODEBOOK
1996 Outpatient Visits File
DATE:September 19, 2005

Variable Name: SURGNAME
Description: SURGICAL PROCEDURE NAME IN CATEGORIES
Format: 2.0
Type: NUM
Start: 104
End: 105

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTDPER96
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
3
34,973
-1 INAPPLICABLE
8,998
112,767,125
1 ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY
71
913,593
2 CATARACT SURGERY
93
1,360,384
3 CLEANING/TREATM WOUND, INFECTION
48
806,479
4 DILATION AND CURETTAGE (D AND C)
20
259,399
5 STITCHES (WOUND SUTURE)
18
181,966
6 TISSUE BIOPSY
105
1,351,418
7 TONSILLECTOMY
26
296,692
8 ADENOIDECTOMY
2
32,726
9 CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
15
197,037
10 EAR TUBES (TYMPANOSTOMY TUBES)
19
319,026
11 PACEMAKER INSERTION
2
31,165
91 OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURE
537
7,267,144
TOTAL
9,957
125,819,128


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