bilateral anatomica location cluster ?!

I’d like to better understand the reasoning for not having bilateral support implemented yet.
There have already been three requests submitted on this topic, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to manage without it.

At the moment, we’re overriding the coding to accommodate bilateral case, which break interop.
Other people specialize it to add it.
So we end up with non interoperable archetypes now.
Bilateral support is essentially a de facto standard, as e.g. ICD localization encodes left, right, and bilateral and so do other terminologies.

I understand that the concept seems to be to make two anatomical locations then for the same thing ?
So you do left,right for bilateral.

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“Left and right” was added to the archetype in October last year. The change request should probably have been closed then, but for some reason it wasn’t.

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