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Data Set Name        PS04.PS04                     Observations          111876
Member Type          DATA                          Variables             30
Engine               BASE                          Indexes               2
Created              Saturday, October 23,         Observation Length    108
                     2004 01:00:24 PM
Last Modified        Saturday, October 23,         Deleted Observations  0
                     2004 01:00:29 PM
Protection                                         Compressed            NO
Data Set Type                                      Sorted                YES
Label
Data Representation  MVS_32
Encoding             Default
                       Engine/Host Dependent Information
                Data Set Page Size          27648
                Number of Data Set Pages    440
                First Data Page             1
                Max Obs per Page            255
                Obs in First Data Page      211
                Index File Page Size        27648
                Number of Index File Pages  105
                Number of Data Set Repairs  0
                Physical Name               MDPPRD.MDP.SAS.PS04
                Release Created             8.0202M0
                Release Last Modified       8.0202M0
                Created by                  PMDPDELT
                Last Modified by            PMDPDELT
                Subextents                  2
                Total Blocks Used           440
                  Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes
   #  Variable  Type  Len  Format      Label
   2  ADMITDAY  Num     4  DATE9.      DATE OF ADMISSION (SASDATE)
   7  ADTIME    Num     4              TIME OF ADMISSION
  21  ANESTEK   Char    1  $ANESTKL.   ANESTHETIC TECHNIQUE
   3  DISDAY    Num     4  DATE9.      DATE OF DISCHARGE (SASDATE)
   8  DISTIME   Num     4              TIME OF DISCHARGE
  15  DISTYPE   Num     2  DISTYPEL.   TYPE OF DISCHARGE
  30  DXLSF     Char    6              DX LOS - FULL STAY (ICD9) (6-DIGIT)
  16  DXLSF32   Num     2  DX9RL26.    DX LOS - FULL STAY (ICD9) (32-RECODE)
  17  DXLSF120  Char    2  $DX9ANL24.  DX LOS - FULL STAY (ICD9) (120-RECODE)
  13  DXPRIME   Char    6              PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS
  11  NSURG     Num     2              NUMBER OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS
  22  NVASURG   Num     2  NVASURGL.   NON-VA SURGERY
   1  SCRSSN    Num     6  SSN11.      SCRAMBLED SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
  28  SGR1      Num     2  SG999L.     99-RECODE OF SURG9CD1
  10  SGSQ      Num     2              SEQUENTIAL NUMBER OF OPERATION
   6  SRTKEY    Num     4              SORT KEY
  12  SSTA6A    Char    6  $STA6AL.    SUBSTATION OF SURGERY
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                  Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes
   #  Variable  Type  Len  Format      Label
   5  STA3N     Num     4  STA3NL.     PARENT STATION
   4  SURGDAY   Num     4  DATE9.      DATE OF SURGERY (SASDATE)
  20  SURGNAST  Num     2  SURGNTPL.   CATEGORY OF FIRST SURG. ASSISTANT
  19  SURGNCAT  Char    1  $SGNCATL.   CATEGORY OF CHIEF SURGEON
  18  SURGSPEC  Num     2  BEDSECN.    SURGICAL SPECIALITY
   9  SURGTIME  Num     4              TIME OF SURGERY
  23  SURG9CD1  Char    5              1ST SURGERY CODE  (ICDA9)
  24  SURG9CD2  Char    5              2ND SURGERY CODE  (ICDA9)
  25  SURG9CD3  Char    5              3RD SURGERY CODE  (ICDA9)
  26  SURG9CD4  Char    5              4TH SURGERY CODE  (ICDA9)
  27  SURG9CD5  Char    5              5TH SURGERY CODE  (ICDA9)
  29  TSTAT     Num     2  TRANSPL.    TRANSPLANT STATUS
  14  VISN      Num     2              VETS INTEGRATED SVC NETWORK
                   Alphabetic List of Indexes and Attributes
                                              # of
                                            Unique
                             #    Index     Values
                             1    SCRSSN     88306
                             2    STA3N        111
                               Sort Information
        Sortedby       SCRSSN ADMITDAY ADTIME DISDAY STA3N SRTKEY SGSQ
        Validated      NO
        Character Set  EBCDIC