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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 reactive arthritis and death from reactive arthritis.
Meaning of reactive arthritis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, reactive arthritis:
(a)          means an immune-mediated arthritis of more than four weeks' duration; and
(b)           is usually associated with evidence of a preceding extra-articular infection; and
(c)           excludes:
                (i)            acute rheumatic fever;
                (ii)         arthritis associated with viruses which are known to cause arthritis as part of the usual spectrum of clinical manifestations (for example, Ross River virus infection, Barmah Forest virus, rubella virus, parvovirus B19);
                (iii)       leptospirosis;
                (iv)        Lyme disease;
                (v)          post-streptococcal reactive arthritis; and
                (vi)        septic arthritis.
Note:  Typical clinical manifestations include a predominantly lower limb, asymmetric oligoarthritis and may include extra-articular manifestations, such as urethritis, cervicitis, conjunctivitis, skin lesions, sacroiliitis, spondylitis and enthesitis.
(3)          While reactive arthritis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M02, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of reactive arthritis 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 reactive arthritis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, reactive arthritis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's reactive arthritis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.