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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 joint instability and death from joint instability.
Meaning of joint instability
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, joint instability:
(a)          means an acquired lack of stability of a joint due to damage to or abnormality of the stabilising structures of that joint, manifesting as recurrent subluxation, recurrent dislocation or recurrent sprain; and
(b)          includes joints with an internal joint prosthesis; and
(c)          excludes spondylolisthesis, and the loosening or migration of the fixation component of an internal joint prosthesis.
(3)          While joint instability attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M22.0, M22.1, M23.5, M24.2, M24.4, M25.3, M43.3, M43.4, M43.5, M53.2 or T84.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of joint instability 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 joint instability
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, joint instability, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's joint instability.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.