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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 migraine and death from migraine.
Meaning of migraine
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, migraine:
(a)          means migraine without aura, migraine with aura (which includes basilar migraine, sporadic hemiplegic migraine and retinal migraine), chronic migraine and vestibular migraine; and
(b)          excludes familial hemiplegic migraine, abdominal migraine, migrainous infarction, amaurosis fugax, cluster headache, tension-type headache, headache attributable to structural abnormalities or inflammatory disorders of the head and neck, and headache attributable to systemic disease.
            Note:  chronic migraine, migraine with aura, migraine without aura and vestibular migraine are defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary
(3)          While migraine attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G43, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of migraine 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 migraine
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, migraine, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's migraine.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.