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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 hepatitis E infection and death from hepatitis E infection.
Meaning of hepatitis E infection
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis E infection means infection with the hepatitis E virus resulting in an illness characterised by inflammation of the liver, and which is confirmed by laboratory testing for hepatitis E serological or nucleic acid markers.

            Note 1: Signs and symptoms of hepatitis E infection include malaise, vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, fever, hepatomegaly and jaundice.

            Note 2: Clinical worsening may be indicated by the development of chronic hepatitis E from acute hepatitis E. Chronic hepatitis E is an infection lasting for at least 6 months.

            Note 3: It will usually be the case that the date of the confirmation of laboratory evidence of hepatitis E serological or nucleic acid markers is after the date of clinical onset.

            Note 4: Clinical onset is defined in the schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(3)          While hepatitis E infection attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B17.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hepatitis E infection 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 hepatitis E infection
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis E infection, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hepatitis E infection.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.