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Lab Display

A VA Data Field used to specify what Labs need to be displayed for a drug within VistA.

Large Volume Parental (LVP)

A solution intended for continuous parenteral infusion, administered as a vehicle for additive(s) or for the pharmacological effect of the solution itself. It is comprised of any number of additives, including zero, in one solution. It runs continuously, with another bag administered when one bottle or bag is empty. This is an admixture.

Layer

A logical grouping of the components within the system that are separated by common functionality.

LE

Local Environment

Legacy System

An existing system that is deployed in an organization with plans to be replaced by a newer system and newer technology.

Lend Order (Inventory)

This functionality allows the local pharmacy to supply (lend) inventory to a borrowing institution. This order does not involve billing but will support “horse trading” for specific items with the borrowing institution. See glossary term Borrow Orders (Inventory).

Licensed Pharmacist

An individual who has graduated from an accredited school of pharmacy, passed a state board examination, and served an internship under a licensed pharmacist in a community or hospital pharmacy.

Licensed Practitioner

An individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to provide healthcare services.

Loading Dose

A dose of drug sufficient to produce a plasma concentration of drug that would fall within the therapeutic window after only one or very few doses over a very short interval. It is larger than the dose rate needed to maintain the concentration within the window and would produce toxic concentrations if given in repeated doses.

Local Order Processing Decision Rule (LOPDR)

The rules specific to the local order processing that assist with the selection of products based on Patient data.

Local Reporting Fields

The fields configured and appended to an item in the Local EPL for use only by the Local EPL Management System. Local Reporting Fields are designed to capture data specific to local activities, but they will not be usable for program functionality. The fields will only be useful for reporting and searching.

Location Group

A group of hospital locations that can include: wards, rooms, and clinics. A location group is created and stored so that it can be used when running a Unit Dose Pick List or a Sterile Product Work List to define the area of the hospital that is serviced.

Log 4J

An open source logging tool that allows developers to write log statements in their software and configure them externally, using properties files.

LOPDR

Local Order Processing Decision Rule

Lot Number

The tracking number assigned by the manufacturer to manufacturing batches in order to track a product recall in the event of a problem with the drug in terms of Patient safety. Maintaining control of this constraint is a high-priority Patient safety issue for the VHA.

LRU

Least Recently Used

LVN

Licensed Vocational Nurse

LVP

Large Volume Parenteral



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