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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about olecranon bursitis and death from olecranon bursitis.
Meaning of olecranon bursitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, olecranon bursitis means inflammation or infection of the bursa overlying the olecranon process of the ulna.
Note:  Typical features of olecranon bursitis are pain, tenderness, redness, swelling and thickening of the bursa and skin in the region of the external elbow.
(3)          While olecranon bursitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M70.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of olecranon bursitis 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 olecranon bursitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, olecranon bursitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's olecranon bursitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.