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.
The look back period. The CMI definition can be confusing since it looks at your income in the previous six-months (often referred to as the âlook backâ period), not, as the term would suggest, the amount of money that you currently earn. Example. Ted files for bankruptcy on July 2, 2011. His current monthly income is the average income he received per month from the period starting January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2011.