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MEPS Home Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
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MEPS H51F CODEBOOK
2000 OUTPATIENT VISITS FILE
DATE: August 16, 2005

Variable Name: SURGNAME
Description: SURGICAL PROCEDURE NAME IN CATEGORIES
Format: 2.0
Type: NUM
Start: 106
End: 107

VALUE
UNWEIGHTED
WEIGHTED BY PERWT00F
-9 NOT ASCERTAINED
1
16,213
-8 DK
1
2,889
-1 INAPPLICABLE
10,236
118,501,433
1 ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY
70
889,711
2 CATARACT SURGERY
83
1,051,506
3 CLEANING/TREATM WOUND, INFECTION
20
323,628
4 DILATION AND CURETTAGE (D AND C)
26
358,749
5 STITCHES (WOUND SUTURE)
11
126,399
6 TISSUE BIOPSY
108
1,269,625
7 TONSILLECTOMY
27
302,915
8 ADENOIDECTOMY
4
45,022
9 CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
23
266,161
10 EAR TUBES (TYMPANOSTOMY TUBES)
25
272,746
11 PACEMAKER INSERTION
1
16,349
91 OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURE
592
7,616,523
TOTAL
11,228
131,059,870


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