AHRQ Mirror Project

Update: Success! We believe that we have mirrored the critical resourcces from AHRQ's guideline.gov. The files exists in this repo, but if you want to browse the raw files (and they are raw files), you can visit these two sites:

• http://ahrqguideline.careset.com/ - a flat mirror of the Guidelines
• http://ahrqqualitymeasures.careset.com/ - a flat mirror of the Quality Measures

This is a project to backup important resources from https://guideline.gov/ and https://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ The reasons for this are explained here: http://www.fredtrotter.com/2018/07/15/emergency-ahrq-backup/

Project by data journalists working at CareSet Systems

General functions

• go_wayback.function.php - Uses the wayback machine API to get the latest copy of a page

Guidelines

• get_guidelines.php - A simple script that downloads all guidelines search results
• extract_guideline_links.php - Once get_guidelines.php is run, use this to download from wayback, the latest version of guidelines. Create guideline_links.csv which shows what was gettable and how old it was.
• guidelines_links.csv - shows the guidelines and which timestamp that wayback machine got for them.
• www.guideline.gov - contains the actual mirror

Measures Clearinghouse

• get_measures.php - downloads measure clearinghouse search results
• extract_measures_links.php - extract the specific measures from search results and tries to download from wayback machine
• measures_links.csv - the status and timestamps for the measures clearninghouse mirror
• www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov - contains the measures clearningout mirror

Measures inventory

• get_measure_inventory.php - Creates the mirror. Uses url counter instead of search results..
• measures_inventory - The mirror of the measures inventory page https://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/hhs/index.aspx

Expert Commentary

There are three sections of commentary and synthesis that appear to be original articles hosted on these websites. The urls are:

• https://guideline.gov/expert
• https://guideline.gov/syntheses/index
• https://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/expert

These are backed up by downloading the main page to the one_off_mirror directory and then parsing that html for links that match pattern in the all of the urls.

• get_expert_commentary.php - parses the already downloaded index pages, and then downloads each commentary in turn
• expert_commentary - the directory where the expert commentary documents are stored

manual backups

• one_off_mirror - things I thought were worth downloading that do not belong anywhere else