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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 duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion and death from duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion.
Meaning of duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion:
(a)          means a non-malignant disruption in the mucosal surface of the duodenum; and
(b)          includes ulcers or erosions due to duodenal foreign bodies; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            acute superficial mucosal erosions of the duodenum; and
(ii)         duodenal perforations from external trauma such as stabbing, explosive blast injury or gunshot injury;
Note: A duodenal erosion is a disruption in the mucosal surface of the duodenum above the lamina propria, and a duodenal ulcer is a disruption in the mucosal surface of duodenum that extends past the lamina propria and through the muscularis mucosa into the submucosa.
(3)          While duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K26, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion 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 duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's duodenal ulcer and duodenal erosion.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.