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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC016F CODEBOOK
1997 Outpatient Visits File
DATE:September 20, 2005

Variable Name: SURGNAME
Description: SURGICAL PROCEDURE NAME IN CATEGORIES
Format: 2.0
Type: NUM
Start: 105
End: 106

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTDPER97
-8 DK
2
18,058
-1 INAPPLICABLE
14,490
114,979,510
1 ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY
76
744,484
2 CATARACT SURGERY
152
1,427,666
3 CLEANING/TREATM WOUND, INFECTION
36
359,459
4 DILATION AND CURETTAGE (D AND C)
41
351,076
5 STITCHES (WOUND SUTURE)
24
202,426
6 TISSUE BIOPSY
157
1,917,790
7 TONSILLECTOMY
35
361,583
8 ADENOIDECTOMY
5
31,722
9 CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
30
212,726
10 EAR TUBES (TYMPANOSTOMY TUBES)
40
360,013
11 PACEMAKER INSERTION
1
6,319
91 OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURE
946
8,235,361
TOTAL
16,035
129,208,193


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