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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 tinnitus and death from tinnitus.
Meaning of tinnitus
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tinnitus:
(a)          means intermittent or constant perception of sound:
(i)            in one or both ears; or
(ii)         in or around the head;
occurring without an external source of sound; and
(b)          must have persisted for at least three consecutive months.
Note: The sounds of tinnitus include buzzing, hissing, ringing, whistling and clicking.
(3)          While tinnitus attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H93.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of tinnitus 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 tinnitus
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tinnitus, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's tinnitus.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.