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

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About the National Data

Data

Data Source:  Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), NIH/NCI

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.
1
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

Questions used to obtain the national baseline data

(For additional information, please visit the data source page linked above.)

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?
  1. Always
  2. Usually
  3. Sometimes
  4. 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. 1 time
  2. 2 times
  3. 3 times
  4. 4 times
  5. 5-9 times
  6. 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

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%.