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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 Dupuytren disease and death from Dupuytren disease.
Meaning of Dupuytren disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Dupuytren disease means a benign, progressive fibroproliferative disease of the palmar and digital fascia, which causes puckering and thickening of palmar skin and the formation of nodules and cords in the palmar and digital fascia, and which may progress to flexion contracture of the digits.
(3)          While Dupuytren disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M72.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of Dupuytren disease 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 Dupuytren disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Dupuytren disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's Dupuytren disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.