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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about incisional hernia and death from incisional hernia.
Meaning of incisional hernia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, incisional hernia means:
(a)          a protrusion of intra-abdominal tissue through a fascial defect in the abdominal wall at the site of a previous surgical incision; and
(b)          includes incisional hernia that recurs following surgical repair of an incisional hernia.
(3)          While incisional hernia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K43.0, K43.1 or K43.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of incisional hernia 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 incisional hernia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, incisional hernia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's incisional hernia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.