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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
Numerator
Number of adults aged 18 years and over who report always being involved in decisions about their health care as much as they wanted.
Denominator
Number of adults aged 18 years and over who have talked with a health care professional in the past 12 months.
Target-setting method
Percentage point improvement
Target-setting method details
Percentage point improvement from the baseline using Cohen's h effect size of 0.20.
Target-setting method justification
Trend data were evaluated for this objective but it was not possible to project a target because trend analysis did not identify any suitable targets. A percentage point improvement was calculated using Cohen's h effect size of 0.2. This method was used because the Healthy People 2030 Workgroup Subject Matter Experts believed the uptake of shared decision-making in the clinical encounter will continue to increase.
Methodology
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
Comparable HP2020 objective
Retained, which includes core objectives that are continuing from Healthy People 2020 with no change in measurement.
1. Effect size h=0.2 was chosen to correspond with 20% improvement from a baseline of 50%.
