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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about pericarditis and death from pericarditis.
Meaning of pericarditis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pericarditis:
(a)          means an inflammation of the pericardium; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            acute pericarditis;
(ii)         chronic pericarditis;
(iii)       recurrent pericarditis; and
(iv)        constrictive pericarditis; and
(c)          excludes haemorrhage from pericardial injury not associated with pericardial inflammation.
(3)          While pericarditis attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes, I30, I31.0, I31.1, I01.0, and I09.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of pericarditis 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 pericarditis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pericarditis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's pericarditis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.