U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of adults whose health care providers involved them in decisions as much as they wanted — HC/HIT‑03 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change
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Most Recent Data:
52.2 percent (2022)

Target:
62.7 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

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

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Persons reporting that their health care provider always involved them in health care decisions, 2017-2020 ◊
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2017 2018 2019 2020
Total
52.8
CI 48.8 / 56.8
SE 2.002
56.6
CI 53.6 / 59.4
SE 1.445
56.5
CI 53.8 / 59.1
SE 1.305
57.2
CI 54.1 / 60.3
SE 1.536

Persons reporting that their health care provider always involved them in health care decisions by Race/Ethnicity, 2017-2020 ◊
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2017 2018 2019 2020
American Indian or Alaska Native only
35.3
CI 9.4 / 74.1
SE 18.845
50.0
CI 23.2 / 76.7
SE 14.861
48.1
CI 7.2 / 91.7
SE 30.726
52.9
CI 21.7 / 81.9
SE 17.311
Asian only
35.0
CI 24.8 / 46.7
SE 5.521
31.2
CI 18.7 / 47.2
SE 7.248
46.7
CI 33.4 / 60.6
SE 6.953
44.3
CI 28.6 / 61.2
SE 8.436
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander only
65.6
CI 16.2 / 95.0
SE 25.713
30.9
CI 3.3 / 85.2
SE 27.182
92.9
CI 33.8 / 99.7
SE 10.678
75.4
CI 42.4 / 92.7
SE 13.149
Black or African American only
59.9
CI 52.3 / 67.1
SE 3.719
59.2
CI 49.8 / 68.1
SE 4.605
52.5
CI 45.0 / 59.9
SE 3.733
63.4
CI 56.6 / 69.8
SE 3.316
White only
54.0
CI 48.9 / 59.0
SE 2.503
58.4
CI 54.9 / 61.7
SE 1.697
58.1
CI 54.7 / 61.5
SE 1.684
57.0
CI 53.5 / 60.5
SE 1.755
2 or more races
46.8
CI 32.6 / 61.5
SE 7.396
61.4
CI 44.3 / 76.1
SE 8.167
60.6
CI 42.9 / 75.8
SE 8.481
49.6
CI 32.2 / 67.2
SE 9.100
Hispanic or Latino
54.9
CI 46.5 / 63.1
SE 4.165
48.9
CI 41.1 / 56.7
SE 3.926
55.4
CI 47.3 / 63.3
SE 4.007
52.7
CI 42.5 / 62.8
SE 5.110
Not Hispanic or Latino
52.0
CI 47.9 / 56.1
SE 2.055
58.1
CI 55.0 / 61.2
SE 1.529
56.5
CI 53.6 / 59.3
SE 1.407
58.2
CI 54.7 / 61.6
SE 1.714
American Indian or Alaska Native only, not Hispanic or Latino
19.9
CI 2.2 / 73.3
SE 19.060
45.3
CI 11.9 / 83.6
SE 22.372
75.1
CI 0.7 / 99.9
SE 56.678
59.5
CI 13.5 / 93.3
SE 26.913
Asian only, not Hispanic or Latino
35.2
CI 23.9 / 48.5
SE 6.235
30.6
CI 17.2 / 48.2
SE 7.918
46.5
CI 32.3 / 61.3
SE 7.422
41.9
CI 25.9 / 59.9
SE 8.781
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander only, not Hispanic or Latino
56.2
CI 0.4 / 99.8
SE 70.853
10.8
CI 0.0 / 100.0
SE 55.397
90.6
CI 2.6 / 100.0
SE 24.900
91.5
CI 49.8 / 99.2
SE 9.230
Black or African American only, not Hispanic or Latino
56.6
CI 49.2 / 63.8
SE 3.662
58.7
CI 47.5 / 69.1
SE 5.470
50.6
CI 41.7 / 59.5
SE 4.469
62.9
CI 55.1 / 70.1
SE 3.761
White only, not Hispanic or Latino
52.8
CI 48.0 / 57.7
SE 2.420
60.1
CI 56.4 / 63.7
SE 1.825
57.8
CI 54.1 / 61.4
SE 1.834
58.7
CI 55.1 / 62.3
SE 1.811
2 or more races, not Hispanic or Latino
42.7
CI 26.7 / 60.4
SE 8.707
66.3
CI 43.7 / 83.2
SE 10.319
64.4
CI 44.5 / 80.4
SE 9.288
47.8
CI 27.3 / 69.0
SE 11.041

Highest and lowest rates for Persons reporting that their health care provider always involved them in health care decisions: Disparities by Race/Ethnicity, 2017-2020 ◊
(percent)
Increase desired