The EMS personnel's impression of the patient's secondary problem or most significant condition which led to the management given to the patient (treatments, medications, or procedures). Code list is represented in ICD-10-CM: Diagnoses Codes, see suggested NEMSIS list of provider impression codes.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Secondary problem
property
Imp = Impression/interpretation of study
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
^Patient
scale
Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method
NEMSIS
Additional Names
short name
Impression; Impression/interpretation of study; Impressions; Interp; Interpretation; National EMS Information Services; Nominal; Point in time; Random