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Condition No.	Condition Name	Weight
1	Acute myocardial infarction	5
2	Cerebral vascular accident	11
3	Congestive heart failure	13
4	Connective tissue disorder	4
5	Dementia	14
6	Diabetes	3
7	Liver disease	8
8	Peptic ulcer	9
9	Peripheral vascular disease	6
10	Pulmonary disease	4
11	Cancer	8
12	Diabetes complications	-1
13	Paraplegia	1
14	Renal disease	10
15	Metastatic cancer	14
16	Severe liver disease	18
17	HIV	2

Spell-based. The following rules were applied to all of the OPER codes in a spell in the order of preference:
Situation	CHOSEN_OP
Spell has none the OPER codes listed below	First OPER code that isn’t “&”
AAA code in spell	First AAA
Both PTCA and Contrast codes somewhere in spell, but no CABG code	First PTCA
Both CABG plus PTCA in spell	If the OPDAT for the PTCA is the same or one day after the OPDAT for the CABG, pick the PTCA, otherwise pick the CABG. (If OPDATs are missing, pick the CABG.)
Both CABG plus Carotid in spell	First CABG
Otherwise…	Pick the first op which has a code in the table below.

OPER codes fall into the above groups based on the following (the codes must begin with one of the appropriate values):
Type	Definition
CABG	K40, K41, K42, K43, K44, K45, K46
PTCA	K49, K50
Contrast	K63, K65
Carotid	L29
AAA	L183, L193, L203, L213, L184, L185, L186, L194, L195, L196, L204, L205, L206, L214, L215, L216
Listed	A01, A02, A08, A12, A38, A40, A41, A52, A65, A83, A84, B27, B28, C12, C31, C32, C33, C34, C35, C60, C71, C72, C73, C74, C75, C77, C82, D03, D15, E03, E04, E25, E29, E36, E49, E51, E53, E54, F09, F10, F22, F34, G01, G02, G03, G14, G15, G16, G17, G18, G19, G27, G28, G35, G43, G44, G45, G52, G53, G58, G69, G70, G71, G78, H01, H02, H04, H05, H06, H07, H08, H09, H10, H11, H13, H15, H20, H21, H22, H23, H24, H25, H26, H27, H28, H33, H44, H48, H50, H51, H52, H54, H56, J01, J02, J13, J14, J18, J38, J39, J40, J41, J43, J56, J69, K01, K02, K04, K05, K06, K07, K09, K10, K11, K12, K14, K18, K19, K20, K25, K26, K27, K28, K29, K30, K31, K34, K37, K40, K41, K42, K43, K44, K45, K46, K49, K50, K53, K60, K63, K65, K66, L01, L05, L06, L09, L10, L12, L18, L19, L20, L21, L29, L33, L35, L48, L49, L50, L51, L52, L53, L56, L57, L58, L59, L60, L62, L63, L85, L87, L95, M01, M02, M14, M26, M27, M28, M29, M34, M42, M45, M65, N08, N09, N17, N30, P23, P31, Q01, Q02, Q03, Q07, Q08, Q10, Q11, Q14, Q17, Q18, Q35, Q36, Q38, Q39, Q41, Q49, Q50, R17, R18, R19, R20, R21, R22, R23, R24, R25, S05, S06, T19, T20, T21, T24, T42, T43, T46, T52, T54, T59, T60, T67, V09, V22, V25, V26, V29, V33, V34, V38, V39, V43, V47, V48, V49, W15, W19, W20, W21, W22, W23, W24, W25, W26, W28, W34, W37, W38, W39, W40, W41, W42, W46, W47, W48, W59, W79, W82, W83, W84, W85, W86, W87, W88, W90, X09, X29, X33, X35, X41

The “first” OPER code is decided on an EPISODE then the number of the OPER variable - for instance, OPER2 is considered “before” OPER5 in the same episode. They are not ordered by date. OPDATn is a HES field and reflects the date associated with OPERn.