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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about trochanteric bursitis and death from trochanteric bursitis.
Meaning of trochanteric bursitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, trochanteric bursitis means a symptomatic disease involving inflammation of the bursae around the greater trochanter of the hip.

            Note: Clinical manifestations of trochanteric bursitis typically include pain and tenderness in the region of the lateral hip or buttock that usually worsens with physical activity.
(3)          While trochanteric bursitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M70.6, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of trochanteric bursitis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from trochanteric bursitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, trochanteric bursitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's trochanteric bursitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.