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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 cholelithiasis and death from cholelithiasis.
Meaning of cholelithiasis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, cholelithiasis means the aggregation of bile constituents into a stone or calculus with a diameter exceeding two millimetres, in the gallbladder or in the intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts; and which may present as biliary colic.
(3)          While cholelithiasis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K80, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of cholelithiasis 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from cholelithiasis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, cholelithiasis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's cholelithiasis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.