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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 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Meaning of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:
(a)          means a chronic progressive inflammatory pathology occurring with different proportions of involvement of the airways, lung parenchyma and vasculature; and
(b)          includes:
(i)             chronic bronchitis;
(ii)          emphysema; and
(iii)        persistent airflow limitation; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            asbestosis;
(ii)         asthma;
(iii)       bronchiectasis;
(iv)        bronchiolitis obliterans;
(v)          fibrosing interstitial lung disease and other fibrosing lung disease;
(vi)        hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitis); and
(vii)     surgical, traumatic or localised emphysema.

Note 1: Symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease include dyspnoea, cough and the production of phlegm. Chronic bronchitis typically occurs with the presence of a productive cough for at least three months of the year for at least two consecutive years. Emphysema is characterized by the destruction of alveolar septa with the enlargement of alveolar airspaces.
Note 2: persistent airflow limitation is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(3)          While chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code J41, J42, J43 and J44, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of chronic obstructive pulmonary 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 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.