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Veterans Health Administration National Drug File

Abbreviation: VANDF

General Information

Veterans Health Administration National Drug File is a centrally maintained electronic drug list used by the VHA hospitals and clinics. Facilities use the NDF to check drug interactions, to manage orders, and to send outpatient prescriptions to regional automated mail-out pharmacies.

Homepage https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/current/VANDF/

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 2015

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: VANDF; Veterans Health Administration National Drug File; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.xn3pb3; Last edited: Dec. 16, 2019, 11:03 a.m.; Last accessed: Sep 25 2021 5:17 a.m.

Record updated: Dec. 11, 2019, 9:18 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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online documentation

Pharmacy Benefits Management Services

Additional Information

Contact

Michael Lincoln

External Links

Bioportal

http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VANDF

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Publications

A semantic normal form for clinical drugs in the UMLS: early experiences with the VANDF.

Nelson SJ,Brown SH,Erlbaum MS,Olson N,Powell T,Carlsen B,Carter J,Tuttle MS,Hole WT
Proc AMIA Symp 2002

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VANDF Ontology Display

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RxNORM

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National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)

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United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) (Government body)

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