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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 anal fissure and death from anal fissure.
Meaning of anal fissure
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, anal fissure:
(a)          means an acquired linear longitudinal split in the skin (anoderm) of the distal anal canal; and
(b)          excludes anal inflammatory bowel disease, anal neoplasia and anal infections.
(3)          While anal fissure attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K60.0, K60.1 or K60.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of anal fissure 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 anal fissure
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, anal fissure, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's anal fissure.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.