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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 von Willebrand disease and death from von Willebrand disease.
Meaning of von Willebrand disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, von Willebrand disease:
(a)          means a genetic disorder of platelet function, which involves a deficiency or abnormality of the von Willebrand factor, resulting in an increased risk of bleeding; and
(b)          excludes haemophilia and acquired von Willebrand syndrome.
(3)          While von Willebrand disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D68.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of von Willebrand 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 von Willebrand disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, von Willebrand disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's von Willebrand disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.