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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 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Meaning of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease:
(a)          means a spongiform encephalopathy characterised by an accumulation of abnormal prion protein in the brain; and
(b)          includes sporadic (classical) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease;
             Note 1: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also known as CJD, is characterised by rapidly progressive dementia, myoclonus and motor disturbances.
Note 2: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(3)          While Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code A81.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 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 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.