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IMPRESSION vs IMPRESSIONS - CuriousMT

Posted: Dec 29, 2014

I've been an MT for over 10 years and have always just typed IMPRESSION, even when there are multiples, but I'm seeing other MT's type "IMPRESSIONS" and also "PLANS" when there are more than one, even when the doctor is only dictating IMPRESSION (though we would change DIAGNOSIS to SES if more than one but not dictated).

I searched the archives and found one mention of this before, but there wasn't much conclusion on the matter.

So what say ye?

I have received specific instructions in the past that if - more than 1 impression use

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IMPRESSIONS

PLANS I usually leave as plan. If it is RECOMMENDATION and there is more than I, I put RECOMMENDATIONS.

Anything you can enumerate should probably be plural. I think a plan is a block of something, not one by one.

sm, my thoughts - Robert Morris

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I have heard of this recently, too. IMO, it's ridiculous. For 15+ years, it has always been "impression," as it is the doctor's impression of this patient after his exam, review of records/data. Same for assessment. W/e they want, they get, but I don't want to hear it's incorrect, and then it knocks your QA score from-seriously-100% because they take 1/4 point each time you did it . . . silly.

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