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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 fibromyalgia and death from fibromyalgia.
Meaning of fibromyalgia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, fibromyalgia means a syndrome of chronic widespread pain, with associated somatic symptoms, that has persisted for at least 3 months, and which meets the following diagnostic criteria, as assessed by a medical practitioner:
(a)          a widespread pain index:
(i)            of at least 7, with an associated symptom severity scale score of at least 5; or
(ii)         from 4 to 6, with an associated symptom severity scale score of at least 9; and
(b)          pain is present in at least 4 of 5 regions from the specified list of regions; and
(c)          the pain and symptoms are not better accounted for by another medical or psychiatric condition.
            Note 1: Pain in the jaw, chest and abdomen does not count towards the number of regions, but does count towards the widespread pain index score of 0 to 19.
            Note 2: specified list of regions, symptom severity scale score and widespread pain index are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(3)          While fibromyalgia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M79.7 in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of fibromyalgia 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 fibromyalgia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, fibromyalgia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's fibromyalgia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.