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

Increase the proportion of adults whose health care provider checked their understanding — HC/HIT‑01 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change
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Most Recent Data:
26.3 percent (2021)

Target:
32.2 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
26.6 percent of adults aged 18 years and over reported that a health care provider asked them to describe how they will follow instructions in 2017

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Persons whose health care provider asks how instructions will be followed, 2017-2021 ◊
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2017 2019 2021
Total
26.6
CI 25.5 / 27.7
SE 0.564
25.6
CI 24.4 / 26.9
SE 0.621
26.3
CI 24.8 / 27.9
SE 0.783