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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 psoriatic arthritis and death from psoriatic arthritis.
Meaning of psoriatic arthritis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, psoriatic arthritis means a seronegative chronic inflammatory arthritis, occurring in association with skin or nail psoriasis.
Note: Psoriatic arthritis is characterised by synovitis, enthesitis and dactylitis.
(3)          While psoriatic arthritis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M07.0 to M07.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of psoriatic arthritis 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 psoriatic arthritis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, psoriatic arthritis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's psoriatic arthritis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.