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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 seborrhoeic dermatitis and death from seborrhoeic dermatitis.
Meaning of seborrhoeic dermatitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, seborrhoeic dermatitis means an exfoliative, chronic dermatitis involving areas of increased sebaceous gland activity.
Note: Seborrhoeic dermatitis characteristically affects the scalp, face, ears and the flexural creases of the body.
(3)          While seborrhoeic dermatitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code L21.0, L21.8 or L21.9, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of seborrhoeic dermatitis 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 seborrhoeic dermatitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, seborrhoeic dermatitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's seborrhoeic dermatitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.