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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 A infection and death from hepatitis A infection.
Meaning of hepatitis A infection
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis A infection means infection with the hepatitis A virus resulting in an acute, symptomatic, clinical illness characterised by inflammation of the liver, and which is confirmed by laboratory testing for hepatitis A serological or nucleic acid markers.
Note: Signs and symptoms of hepatitis A infection include fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, hepatomegaly and jaundice.
(3)          While hepatitis A infection attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B15, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hepatitis A infection 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 hepatitis A infection
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis A infection, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hepatitis A infection.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.