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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 otitis media and death from otitis media.
Meaning of otitis media
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, otitis media:
(a)          means an infective or inflammatory process within the middle ear; and
(b)          excludes cholesteatoma and isolated perforation of the tympanic membrane.
(3)          While otitis media attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H65, H66 or H67 in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of otitis media 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 otitis media
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, otitis media, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's otitis media.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.