Achilles Data Source Characterization

Automated Characterization of Health Information at Large-Scale Longitudinal Evidence Systems. Creates a descriptive statistics summary for an Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model standardized data source. This package includes functions for executing summary queries on the specified data source and exporting reporting content for use across a variety of Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics community applications.

Achilles

Achilles is part of HADES.

Introduction

Automated Characterization of Health Information at Large-Scale Longitudinal Evidence Systems (ACHILLES) Achilles provides descriptive statistics on an OMOP CDM database. ACHILLES currently supports CDM version 5.3 and 5.4.

Features

• Performs broad database characterization
• Export feature for ARES
• Export feature for AchillesWeb (deprecated)

Technology

Achilles is an R package.

System Requirements

Requires R (version 4.0 or higher).

Installation

1. See the instructions here for configuring your R environment, including RTools and Java.

2. In R, use the following commands to download and install Achilles:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("OHDSI/Achilles")

User Documentation

Documentation can be found on the package website.

Support

• Developer questions/comments/feedback: OHDSI Forums
• We use the GitHub issue tracker for all bugs/issues/enhancements

Contributing

Read here how you can contribute to this package.

License

Achilles is licensed under Apache License 2.0

Development

Achilles is being developed in R Studio.

Development status

Achilles is ready for use.

Acknowledgements

• This project was supported in part through the National Science Foundation grant IIS 1251151.