This Week's Challenge: The PHQ-9, the nine-item depression scale of the Patient Health Questionnaire, is the top behavioral health screening tool, according to the 2015 Healthcare Benchmarks: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care. The survey also identifies other behavioral screening tools healthcare organizations use.
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2015 Healthcare Benchmarks: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care, captures healthcare's efforts to achieve healthcare parity and honor the joint principles of the patient-centered medical home, including a whole person orientation and provision of coordinated and/or integrated care.
This 40-page report, based on responses by 113 healthcare organizations to HIN's inaugural industry survey on this emerging trend, compiles a wealth of metrics on current and planned integration, levels of integration achieved, program components, screening tools, challenges, impacts and successes.
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© 2015 Healthcare Performance Benchmarks by Healthcare Intelligence Network.
Editor: Patricia Surdovel, [email protected];
Publisher: Melanie Matthews, [email protected]
