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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 osteonecrosis and death from osteonecrosis.
Meaning of osteonecrosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, osteonecrosis:
(a)          means a disease of bone where death of bone tissue occurs as a result of the temporary or permanent loss of blood supply to bone; and
(b)          includes dysbaric osteonecrosis.
            Note: Osteonecrosis is also known as avascular necrosis, aseptic necrosis or ischaemic necrosis.
(3)          While osteonecrosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K10.2, M87, M90.3, M90.4 or M90.5, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of osteonecrosis 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 osteonecrosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, osteonecrosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's osteonecrosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.