Odynophagia means painful swallowing. Sometimes it is not easy for individuals to distinguish between odynophagia and dysphagia. For example, food that sticks in the esophagus often is painful. Is this dysphagia or odynophagia or both? Technically it is dysphagia, but individuals may describe it as painful swallowing (i.e., odynophagia).
Case Mix Index (CMI) is a relative value assigned to a diagnosis-related group. (DRG/MSDRG) of patients in a medical care environment. The CMI value is used in. determining the allocation of resources to care for and/or treat the patients in the group. Patients are classified into groups having the same condition (based on Principal and. Secondary Diagnoses, Procedures, Age), complexity (comorbidity) and needs. These.
Chiari malformations (CMs) are structural defects in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls balance. Normally the cerebellum and parts of the brain stem sit in an indented space at the lower rear of the skull, above the foramen magnum (a funnel-like opening to the spinal canal).Ms are classified by the severity of the disorder and the parts of the brain that protrude into the spinal canal. Type I involves the extension of the cerebellar tonsils (the lower part of the cerebellum) into the foramen magnum, without involving the brain stem.