Introduction: This paper reports the development and validation of a questionnaire to assess collaboration between clinical professionals from two different care levels (primary and specialised care), according to the clinicians' own perceptions. This questionnaire has been elaborated to be used as part of the monitoring and evaluation process of the integrated care pilots in the public Basque Health Service.

Introduction: This article explores the impact of the creation of a new integrated delivery organisation on the evolution of interprofessional collaboration between primary and secondary care levels. In particular, the case of the Bidasoa Integrated Healthcare Organisation is analysed.

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Purpose: The purpose was to develop a questionnaire, gathering the professionals' opinion, to measure the degree of collaboration between clinicians from different levels of care (primary care and specialised care) in a given healthcare organisation. This questionnaire was originally developed to assess processes of care integration in the Basque Health System (Spain), but can also be used in other contexts. Methodology:The questionnaire was based on the four-dimension model and 10 indicators of interprofessional collaboration in healthcare organisations proposed by D'Amour et al. [1].The resulting questionnaire was pre-tested and its construct validity and homogeneity evaluated in three healthcare organisations of the Basque Health Service. Results and conclusions:

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