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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 gout and death from gout.
Meaning of gout
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, gout means a metabolic condition characterised by deposition of urate crystals in the joints or tissues, generally following raised serum uric acid levels.
            Note: Clinical manifestations typically include recurrent episodes of monoarticular or polyarticular acute inflammatory arthritis, tenosynovitis, bursitis, chronic erosive arthritis and periarticular or subcutaneous urate deposits known as tophi.
(3)          While gout attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M10, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of gout 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 gout
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, gout, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's gout.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.