C1. Assessment of Chronic Illness Care, Version 3.5

In December 2013, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released nine core measures for assessing the quality of behavioral health care services integrated into primary care. The measures were developed and validated for use in various quality-of-care applications. Core measures align closely with the Integration Framework. The first measure is C1. Assessment of Chronic Illness Care, Version 3.5. It was designed to measure coordinated care in general and can be adapted to measure integrated care. C1 is a survey designed to help systems and provider practices move toward the “state-of-the-art” in . . .