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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS H26FF1 CODEBOOK
1998 OUTPATIENT VISITS FILE
DATE: August 22, 2005

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

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY WTDPER98
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
3
34,356
-8 DK
2
41,669
-1 INAPPLICABLE
9,438
112,707,368
1 ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY
73
961,468
2 CATARACT SURGERY
99
1,377,893
3 CLEANING/TREATM WOUND, INFECTION
36
539,737
4 DILATION AND CURETTAGE (D AND C)
35
425,681
5 STITCHES (WOUND SUTURE)
19
340,858
6 TISSUE BIOPSY
110
1,532,153
7 TONSILLECTOMY
14
169,413
8 ADENOIDECTOMY
3
40,768
9 CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
15
212,140
10 EAR TUBES (TYMPANOSTOMY TUBES)
19
293,214
11 PACEMAKER INSERTION
1
4,337
91 OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURE
605
7,463,083
TOTAL
10,472
126,144,139


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