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name

VA GENERIC

number

50.6

location

^PSNDF(50.6,

description

Per VHA Directive 2005-044, this file has been "locked down" by Data Standardization (DS). The file definition (i.e. data dictionary) shall not be modified. All additions, changes and deletions to entries in the file shall be done by Enterprise Reference Terminology (ERT) using the Master File Server (MFS), provided by Common Services (CS). Creating and/or editing locally defined fields in the file are not permitted. Use of locally defined fields that were created prior to VHA Directive 2005-044 shall not be supported.

Fields

#	Name	Location	Type	Details	Index	Description
.001	number		11			This is the National Drug number.
.01	name(+)	0;1	FREE TEXT		B	The VA Generic name for this entry.
1	inactivation date	0;2	DATE-TIME			The date when this VA GENERIC ITEM was made inactive.
99.98	master entry for vuid(+)	VUID;2	BOOLEAN	1:YES 0:NO		This field identifies the Master entry for a VUID associated with a Term/Concept.
99.99	vuid(+)	VUID;1	FREE TEXT		AVUID	VHA Unique ID (VUID). A unique meaningless integer assigned to reference terms VHA wide.
99.991	effective date time	TERMSTATUS;0	MULTIPLE	50.6009		Describes the pair Status and Effective Date/Time for each reference term.