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About the National Data
Data
Baseline: 52.8 percent of adults aged 18 years and over reported that their health care providers always involved them in decisions about their health care as much as they wanted in 2017
Target: 62.7 percent
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
From the 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey:
Numerator:
In the past 12 months when you talked with a health care professional, how often did they involve you in decisions about your health care as much as you wanted?- Always
- Usually
- Sometimes
- Never
Numerator and Denominator:
During the past 12 months, not counting times you went to an emergency room, how many times did you go to a doctor, nurse, or other health professional to get care for yourself?- 1 time
- 2 times
- 3 times
- 4 times
- 5-9 times
- 10 or more times
Methodology notes
HINTS is an annual, cross-sectional survey of a nationally-representative sample of American adults that is used to assess the impact of the health information environment.
Responses of "always" to the numerator question were considered to be positive responses for the purpose of measuring this objective.
History
1. Effect size h=0.2 was chosen to correspond with 20% improvement from a baseline of 50%.