Canonical set of concept ids for common measurement values?

[MaximMoinat]

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Same issue, but in the Procedure domain:

Losing information when matching ICD10 codes with SNOMED (e.g. the procedure laterality)

This surfaces a bigger issue actually: standard procedure concepts are not well curated. We can’t say we ‘harmonised’ the vocabularies if there are two standard concepts with equal meaning. In my view, the example here is actually a very good one, only the capitalisation is different: ICD10PCS:BP4PZZZ “Ultrasonography of Left Hand” SNOMED:1121000087102 “Ultrasonography of left hand” In ETL the choice will be quite arbitrary and at analysis we always have to include both (although practically …