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    • VA National Drug File

    Metadata Updated: May 1, 2021

    The VA National Drug File is a centrally maintained electronic drug list used by the VA hospitals and clinics. Facilities use the VA National Drug File to check drug interactions, to manage orders, and to send outpatient prescriptions to regional automated mail-out pharmacies. The VA National Drug File includes information on clinical drugs, drug classes, ingredients and National Drug Code (NDC) Directory codes.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    This dataset is part of the following collection:

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date May 1, 2021
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date May 1, 2021
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-PBM-007
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-05-15
    Category Pharmacy
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id fe230b06-03a9-400d-8010-3b7db75e214c
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.pbm.va.gov/PBM/nationalformulary/NDFDataStructure.pdf
    Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
    Harvest Object Id 8a64aac3-a3da-454b-9e80-ce6241ad8139
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.pbm.va.gov/nationalformulary.asp
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:047
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 810fd8aa7e3ca01db218d8dfcdb8f884ae98b9d7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1998-10-01T04:00:00Z/2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

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