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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 irritable bowel syndrome and death from irritable bowel syndrome.
Meaning of irritable bowel syndrome
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, irritable bowel syndrome means recurrent abdominal pain occurring on average at least one day per week for at least three months, where the pain is associated with two or more of the following:
            (a)          defaecation;
            (b)          a change in the frequency of stool; or
            (c)          a change in the form (appearance) of stool;
         with the symptom onset at least six months prior to the diagnosis.
(3)          While irritable bowel syndrome attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K58, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of irritable bowel syndrome 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 irritable bowel syndrome
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, irritable bowel syndrome, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's irritable bowel syndrome.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.