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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 knee bursitis and death from knee bursitis.
Meaning of knee bursitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, knee bursitis:
(a)          means inflammation or infection of a bursa around the knee joint; and
(b)          excludes popliteal (Baker) cyst.
            Note:   Knee bursitis is characterised by pain, tenderness, redness, swelling and thickening in the region of the knee.
(3)          While knee bursitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M70.4 or M70.5, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of knee bursitis 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 knee bursitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, knee bursitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's knee bursitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.