Death Certificate Project
The effort dubbed the death certificate project has angered physicians in california and beyond in part because the doctors being investigated did not necessarily write the prescriptions.
Death certificate project. Kirchmeyer described the death certificate project as an invaluable and proactive way to prevent future opioid overdoses by revealing overprescribers. On all things considered thursday kqeds april dembosky reports on the california medical boards death certificate project which collected almost 3000 death certificates of people. Scaring providers into not prescribing opioids i think that is not the ethically appropriate way to go forward coffin said of the death certificate project. So the boards project is using death certificates and the cures database to go beyond the individual fatality and examine a physicians overall prescribing practices.
The death certificate project was a way around that and one she supported. It was never the boards intention for doctors to simply stop prescribing opioids kirchmeyer said and it doesnt want that.