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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 chronic pancreatitis and death from chronic pancreatitis.
Meaning of chronic pancreatitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic pancreatitis means a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas resulting in irreversible morphological change with parenchymal damage and fibrosis of the organ.
Note: Chronic pancreatitis typically presents with abdominal pain, malnutrition and loss of exocrine and endocrine pancreatic function.
(3)          While chronic pancreatitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K86.0 or K86.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of chronic pancreatitis 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 chronic pancreatitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic pancreatitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chronic pancreatitis.
            Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.