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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 asbestosis and death from asbestosis.
Meaning of asbestosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, asbestosis means interstitial fibrosis of the lung caused by the deposition of asbestos fibres in the lung parenchyma.
            Note: Fibrosis of the lung can vary in extent from minor involvement of the basal areas to extensive scarring.
(3)          While asbestosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code J61, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of asbestosis 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 asbestosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, asbestosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's asbestosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.