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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 C and death from hepatitis C.
Meaning of hepatitis C
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis C means infection with the hepatitis C virus resulting in:
(a)          an acute, symptomatic, clinical illness characterised by inflammation of the liver, and which is confirmed by laboratory testing for hepatitis C serological or nucleic acid markers; or
(b)          a chronic infection of at least six months duration, and which is confirmed by laboratory testing for hepatitis C nucleic acid markers.
            Note 1: Acute hepatitis C infection is commonly accompanied by fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort and jaundice.
            Note 2: Chronic hepatitis C infection may involve both inflammation of the liver and the development of fibrosis in the longer term.
(3)          While hepatitis C attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B17.1 or B18.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hepatitis C 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 C
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis C, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hepatitis C.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.