North Carolina registers deaths electronically through NCDAVE, the NC Database Application for Vital Events, a secure web-based statewide system that replaced paper death certificates moving between offices. Funeral homes, medical certifiers and medical examiners each complete their part of the record online. Physicians, PAs and NPs meet it when they must certify the cause of death for a patient, and the record is then filed with the local registrar.
Medical certifiers (physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners) or medical examiners complete the cause-of-death certification. Funeral homes work on the same electronic record, supplying their part online.
Download the current version from the source each time; forms change without notice.
NCDAVE (NC Database Application for Vital Events) death medical certification
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Vital Records takes this form through its online services or your EMR, so there is no PDF to fill. Vero Scribe writes the visit note it draws on, so the details are ready when you complete it.
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Start with your practice's local NCDAVE administrator, who manages logins; NC Vital Records publishes a searchable list of local administrators. If your practice has none, request an account through the NCDAVE VitalChek user enrollment page. Field Services provides the credentials for the medical certifier resource section.
NC Vital Records states that death records must be filed electronically with local registrars within the required five days after the death occurs. The five days cover the whole record, including the medical certifier's cause-of-death section, so certification needs to be finished well inside that window.