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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
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%.