Creating your own search page
We have updated our search approach to enable external developers to build on
both the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) search engines. Developers can create a HTML search form that
collects user criteria on their own site and passes that data to the NGC or NQMC
site to display the search results (figure 1).
figure 1: external site -> NGC/NQMC search results page -> NGC/NQMC
summaries
A developer must use the following rules to create a form on their site to
access the NGC/NQMC search.
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The form must use a "GET" method (as opposed to a "POST" method)
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The action of the form must be
http://www.guideline.gov/search/searchresults.aspx
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The inputs "type" and "num" are required for the search to work. The value for
type must be 5 and the value for num can be any integer greater than 0.
Examples:
<input type="hidden" id="type" name="type" value="5">
<input type="hidden" id="num" name="num" value="20">
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Any combination of fields from the detailed
search page can be used to narrow the search results.
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Any value in a list you want to pass as a default for filtering guidelines must
be placed into an input field of type="hidden" with the same name as the list. The
values for the input must be comma separated.
Form Example:
figure 2:
Here is the HTML of the form
<form action="http://www.guideline.gov/search/searchresults.aspx"
method="get" ID="Form1">
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="5" id="type">
<input type="hidden" name="num" value="20" id="num">
<input type="hidden" name="lmaqs" value="714,715"
id="lmaqs">
<input type="hidden" name="lmaz"
value="718,719,720,721,722,725,726" ID="lmaz">
<input type="text" id="sx" name="sx">
<br />
<input type="submit">
<br />
</form>
This example passes 2 hidden variables to filter on "Methods Used to Assess the
Quality and Strength of the Evidence" and "Methods Used to Analyze the
Evidence" along with a user specified search word. Click
here to view the search example. A list of all variables and their
values can be found in the glossary at the bottom of
the page.
Here is a list of all possible variables
that can be used to search the NQMC/NGC sites. The values for these varaibels
are listed below
Below are tables of all the values for
each list on the detailed search. This is up to date as of 9/26/03
Guideline Category: code = lc
Value Code | Value Name |
524 |
Assessment of Therapeutic Effectiveness |
526 |
Counseling |
519 |
Diagnosis |
594 |
Education |
335 |
Evaluation |
521 |
Management |
522 |
Prevention |
336 |
Rehabilitation |
525 |
Risk Assessment |
523 |
Screening |
337 |
Technology Assessment |
520 |
Treatment |
Organization Type: code = lot
Value Code | Value Name |
8 |
Academic Institution |
9 |
Disease Specific Society |
3 |
Federal Government Agency [U.S.] |
16 |
Hospital/Medical Center |
19 |
Independent Expert Panel |
5 |
International Agency |
6 |
Managed Care Organization |
7 |
Manufacturer |
1 |
Medical Specialty Society |
14 |
National Government Agency [Non-U.S.] |
17 |
Nursing Home/Extended Care Facility |
11 |
Private For Profit Organization |
13 |
Private For Profit Research Organization |
10 |
Private Nonprofit Organization |
12 |
Private Nonprofit Research Organization |
2 |
Professional Association |
18 |
Public For Profit Organization |
15 |
State/Local Government Agency [Non-U.S.] |
4 |
State/Local Government Agency [U.S.] |
Intended Users: code = liu
Value Code | Value Name |
688 |
Advanced Practice Nurses |
679 |
Allied Health Personnel |
680 |
Chiropractors |
681 |
Clinical Laboratory Personnel |
682 |
Dentists |
683 |
Dietitians |
708 |
Emergency Medical Technicians/Paramedics |
684 |
Health Care Providers |
685 |
Health Plans |
686 |
Hospitals |
687 |
Managed Care Organizations |
689 |
Nurses |
690 |
Occupational Therapists |
691 |
Optometrists |
692 |
Other |
693 |
Pathology Assistants |
694 |
Patients |
695 |
Pharmacists |
696 |
Physical Therapists |
697 |
Physician Assistants |
698 |
Physicians |
699 |
Podiatrists |
700 |
Psychologists/Non-physician Behavioral Health Clinicians |
701 |
Public Health Departments |
702 |
Respiratory Care Practitioners |
703 |
Social Workers |
704 |
Speech-Language Pathologists |
705 |
Students |
706 |
Substance Use Disorders Treatment Providers |
707 |
Utilization Management |
Clinical Specialty: code = lcs
Value Code | Value Name |
607 |
Adolescent Health |
608 |
Allergy and Immunology |
609 |
Anesthesiology |
610 |
Behavioral Health |
611 |
Cardiology |
612 |
Cardiothoracic Surgery |
613 |
Cardiovascular Nursing |
614 |
Chiropractic |
615 |
Clinical Laboratory |
616 |
Clinical Pathology - Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine |
617 |
Colon and Rectal Surgery |
618 |
Critical Care |
619 |
Critical Care Nursing |
620 |
Dentistry |
621 |
Dermatology |
622 |
Emergency Medicine |
623 |
Endocrinology |
624 |
Epidemiology and Public Health |
625 |
Family Practice |
626 |
Fetal and Maternal Medicine |
627 |
Gastroenterology |
628 |
General Surgery |
629 |
Geriatrics |
630 |
Gynecologic Oncology |
631 |
Hematology |
632 |
Infectious Diseases |
633 |
Internal Medicine |
634 |
Medical Genetics |
635 |
Medical Oncology |
636 |
Mental Health and Substance Abuse |
637 |
Microbiology |
638 |
Neonatology |
639 |
Nephrology |
640 |
Neurological Surgery |
641 |
Neurology |
642 |
Nuclear Medicine |
643 |
Nursing |
644 |
Nutrition |
645 |
Obstetrics and Gynecology |
646 |
Occupational Medicine |
647 |
Oncology |
648 |
Ophthalmology |
649 |
Optometry |
650 |
Orthopedic Surgery |
651 |
Orthopedics |
652 |
Otolaryngology |
653 |
Pathology |
654 |
Pediatric Cardiology |
655 |
Pediatrics |
656 |
Perinatology |
657 |
Pharmacology |
658 |
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
659 |
Plastic Surgery |
660 |
Podiatry |
661 |
Preventive Medicine |
662 |
Primary Care |
663 |
Psychiatry |
676 |
Psychology |
664 |
Pulmonary Medicine |
665 |
Radiation Oncology |
666 |
Radiology |
667 |
Rheumatology |
668 |
Sleep Medicine |
669 |
Social Services |
670 |
Speech-Language Pathology |
671 |
Sports Medicine |
677 |
Surgery |
672 |
Surgical Pathology |
673 |
Thoracic Surgery |
674 |
Urology |
675 |
Vascular Surgery |
Methods Used to Assess the Quality and Strength of the
Evidence: code = lmaqs
Value Code | Value Name |
710 |
Expert Consensus |
711 |
Expert Consensus (Committee) |
712 |
Expert Consensus (Delphi Method) |
713 |
Subjective Review |
714 |
Weighting According to a Rating Scheme (Scheme Given) |
715 |
Weighting According to a Rating Scheme (Scheme Not Given) |
Methods Used to Analyze the Evidence: code = lmaz
Value Code | Value Name |
717 |
Decision Analysis |
718 |
Meta-Analysis |
719 |
Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data |
720 |
Meta-Analysis of Observational Trials |
721 |
Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
722 |
Meta-Analysis of Summarized Patient Data |
723 |
Other |
724 |
Review |
727 |
Review of Published Meta-Analyses |
725 |
Systematic Review |
726 |
Systematic Review with Evidence Tables |
Methods Used to Formulate the Recommendations: code = lmfr
Value Code | Value Name |
603 |
Balance Sheets |
599 |
Expert Consensus |
602 |
Expert Consensus (Consensus Development Conference) |
600 |
Expert Consensus (Delphi) |
601 |
Expert Consensus (Nominal Group Technique) |
598 |
Informal Consensus |
605 |
Other |
IOM Care Needs: code = licn
Value Code | Value Name |
136 |
End of Life Care |
137 |
Getting Better |
138 |
Living with Illness |
139 |
Staying Healthy
|
IOM Domain: code = lid
Value Code | Value Name |
141 |
Effectiveness |
552 |
Efficiency |
553 |
Equity |
142 |
Patient-centeredness |
143 |
Safety |
144 |
Timeliness |
Age of Target Population: code = la
Value Code | Value Name |
452 |
Adolescent (13 to 18 years) |
453 |
Adult (19 to 44 years) |
455 |
Aged (65 to 79 years) |
456 |
Aged, 80 and over |
451 |
Child (2 to 12 years) |
450 |
Infant (1 to 23 months) |
449 |
Infant, Newborn (to 1 month) |
454 |
Middle Age (45 to 64 years) |
Sex of Target Population: code = ls
Value Code | Value Name |
459 |
Female |
458 |
Male |
Publication Date: code = lrd
Value Code | Value Name |
2003 |
2003 |
2002 |
2002 |
2001 |
2001 |
2000 |
2000 |
1999 |
1999 |
1998 |
1998 |
1997 |
1997 |