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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 erectile dysfunction and death from erectile dysfunction.
Meaning of erectile dysfunction
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, erectile dysfunction:
(a)          means persistent or recurrent inability to develop or maintain an erection adequate for sexual intercourse; and
(b)          includes psychogenic and organic impotence; and
(c)          excludes transient failure of erection due to fatigue, situational anxiety, alcohol or drugs.
(3)          While erectile dysfunction attracts ICD‑10‑AM code F52.2 or N48.4, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of erectile dysfunction 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 erectile dysfunction
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, erectile dysfunction, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's erectile dysfunction.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.