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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 conjunctivitis and death from conjunctivitis.
Meaning of conjunctivitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, conjunctivitis means inflammation of the conjunctiva and includes blepharoconjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis.
(3)          While conjunctivitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H10, H13.1, H13.2 or H16.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of conjunctivitis 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 conjunctivitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, conjunctivitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's conjunctivitis.
            Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.