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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 inguinal hernia and death from inguinal hernia.
Meaning of inguinal hernia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, inguinal hernia means:
(a)           a protrusion of intra-abdominal tissue through the abdominal wall either:
(i)             through the inguinal canal; or
(ii)         through a weakness in the posterior wall of the inguinal canal; and
(b)          includes direct and indirect inguinal hernia; and
(c)          excludes femoral hernia.
(3)          While inguinal hernia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K40, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of inguinal hernia 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 inguinal hernia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, inguinal hernia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's inguinal hernia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.