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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 renal stone disease and death from renal stone disease.
Meaning of renal stone disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, renal stone disease:
            (a)          means the presence of one or more calculi in the kidney (nephrolithiasis) or ureter (ureterolithiasis), which result from crystallisation of mineral salts in the urine; and
(b)          excludes nephrocalcinosis (renal parenchymal calcification) and primary calculus of the lower urinary tract (urinary bladder or urethra).
Note:  Renal stones are typically composed of calcium salts (calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate), uric acid, cystine or struvite (magnesium, ammonium and phosphate).
(3)          While renal stone disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code N20, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of renal stone disease 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 renal stone disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, renal stone disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's renal stone disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.