Hello Achilles community,
Two announcements!
First, the latest version of Achilles on the MASTER branch incorporates support for CDM v5.4.
As in previous versions of Achilles, you have the option to pass in a string value for the parameter, cdmVersion, when invoking Achilles::achilles. If you would like to explicitly use the cdmVersion parameter for your v5.4 CDM, you can do so via: cdmVersion = “5.4”.
However, cdmVersion has been and continues to be an optional parameter as Achilles determines a CDM’s version using CDM_SOURCE.CDM_VERSION.
If you previously did not specify cdmVersion when calling Achilles::achilles, you can continue this practice.
Among the changes made for CDM v5.4, (Changes by Table), was the addition of the
CDM_VERSION_CONCEPT_ID column to the CDM_SOURCE table. In future Achilles releases, we will be using this column rather than relying on a string to determine a CDM’s version. The correct CONCEPT_ID for CDM_SOURCE.CDM_VERSION_CONCEPT_ID for a v5.4 CDM is 756265 (Athena).
To be clear, we are not making this change now. However, this will be a best practice for a future release of Achilles, so please ensure CDM_SOURCE.CDM_VERSION_CONCEPT_ID is properly populated once you move to v5.4.
Second, Achilles HEEL (Achilles::achillesHeel) is being retired and will be removed from the Achilles package on 11/17/2021. While HEEL has been with us for some time, it has been replaced by the Data Quality Dashboard (https://github.com/OHDSI/DataQualityDashboard).
Any and all feedback is welcome. Feel free to respond at: https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/discussions