Doctors who prescribe medicine are
being urged to pay closer attention to the patients getting those
prescriptions. A group affiliated with the state Board of Pharmacy is looking
for red flags among doctors who show potential problems.
Letters were recently issued to a
number of doctors, pharmacists, and others across the state about the two
problems. One of the letters identified doctors who had an abnormally high
number of patients who died as a result of prescription drug overdoses or other
problems associated with medication.
The second letter is to advise
doctors some of their patients might be doctor shopping and they were being
used in the chain.
The monitoring program is a data base of every prescription
written in West Virginia
