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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS HC016G CODEBOOK
1997 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File
DATE:September 20, 2005

Variable Name: SURGNAME
Description: SURGICAL PROCEDURE NAME IN CATEGORIES
Format: 2.0
Type: NUM
Start: 110
End: 111

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTDPER97
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
2
13,658
-8 DK
1
4,079
-1 INAPPLICABLE
145,393
1,218,107,991
1 ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY
51
451,198
2 CLEANING/TREATM WOUND, INFECTION
269
1,933,336
3 REMOVAL OF DISEASED TISSUE (EXCISION)
1,101
9,856,718
4 STITCHES (WOUND SUTURE)
191
1,822,253
5 EAR TUBES (TYMPANOSTOMY TUBES)
23
179,798
91 OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURE
1,804
15,793,565
TOTAL
148,835
1,248,162,595


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