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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 hepatitis B and death from hepatitis B.
Meaning of hepatitis B
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis B means infection with the hepatitis B virus resulting in:
(a)          an acute, symptomatic, clinical illness characterised by inflammation of the liver and commonly accompanied by fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort and jaundice; or
(b)          a chronic infection of at least six months duration and which may involve both inflammation of the liver and the development of fibrosis in the longer term.
          Both acute and chronic infection must be confirmed by laboratory testing for hepatitis B serological or nucleic acid markers, or both.
(3)          While hepatitis B attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B16, B18.0 or B18.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hepatitis B 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from hepatitis B
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis B, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hepatitis B.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.