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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 analgesic nephropathy and death from analgesic nephropathy.
Meaning of analgesic nephropathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, analgesic nephropathy means a bilateral chronic renal disease characterised by papillary necrosis, chronic interstitial nephritis, renal cortical atrophy and capillary sclerosis, and a clinical state of loss of renal function in an individual with a history of consumption of large amounts of analgesic agents, occurring in the absence of another biochemical, anatomical or metabolic cause for renal impairment.
(3)          While analgesic nephropathy attracts ICD‑10‑AM code N14.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of analgesic nephropathy 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from analgesic nephropathy
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, analgesic nephropathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's analgesic nephropathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.