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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 osteogenesis imperfecta and death from osteogenesis imperfecta.
Meaning of osteogenesis imperfecta
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, osteogenesis imperfecta means a group of genetic disorders of bone formation that typically involve low bone mass, bone fragility and an increased propensity to fracture.
(3)          While osteogenesis imperfecta attracts ICD‑10‑AM code Q78.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of osteogenesis imperfecta 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 osteogenesis imperfecta
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, osteogenesis imperfecta, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's osteogenesis imperfecta.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.