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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 haemophilia and death from haemophilia.
Meaning of haemophilia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, haemophilia:
(a)          means one of a group of genetic disorders that involve defective clotting of blood through deficiencies in clotting factors VIII (haemophilia A or classical haemophilia), IX (haemophilia B or Christmas disease) or XI (haemophilia C or plasma thromboplastin antecedent deficiency); and
(b)          excludes von Willebrand disease and acquired haemophilia.
(3)          While haemophilia attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes D66, D67, or D68.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of haemophilia 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 haemophilia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, haemophilia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's haemophilia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.