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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 periodic limb movement disorder and death from periodic limb movement disorder.
Meaning of periodic limb movement disorder
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, periodic limb movement disorder:
(a)           means a sleep disorder in which excessive periodic limb movements of sleep are accompanied by a clinical sleep disturbance and impaired daytime behavioural, social, physical or occupational functioning; and
(b)           the clinical features are not better explained by another primary sleep disorder; and
(c)           excludes periodic limb movements of sleep which are not accompanied by a clinical sleep disturbance or impaired daytime functioning.
                Note 1: Clinical sleep disturbance is characterised by difficulty with sleep initiation or sleep maintenance, or unrefreshing sleep.
                Note 2: The diagnosis is confirmed by overnight polysomnography (PSG) showing periodic limb movements occurring at a frequency of at least 15 per hour during sleep in adults.
                Note 3: Examples of other primary sleep disorders include restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnoea, rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder and narcolepsy.
Note 4:  periodic limb movements of sleep is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(3)          While periodic limb movement disorder attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G47.61, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of periodic limb movement disorder 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 periodic limb movement disorder
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, periodic limb movement disorder, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's periodic limb movement disorder.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.