Roemer's law

Roemer's law

In health policy, Roemer's Law may be expressed as follows: "in an insured population, a hospital bed built is a bed filled" [Obituary of Milton I. Roemer [http://www.ph.ucla.edu/pr/miroemer.html] ]

This rule was deduced by the American health services researcher Milton Roemer, working at the UCLA School of Public Health. Roemer and colleagues found a positive correlation between the number of short-term general hospital beds available per 1,000 population and the number of hospital days used per 1,000 population [Shain M, Roemer MI. Hospital costs relate to the supply of beds. Modern Hospital. 1959 Apr;92(4):71-3] .

Whilst clearly Roemer's Law will not always hold true (not every bed that is ever built will be filled), it does provide the underpinning for certificate of need laws and for health planning [Problems and Prospects for Health Planning: The Importance of Incentives, Standards, and Procedures in Certificate of Need [http://indylaw.indiana.edu/instructors/orentlicher/healthlw/Chap10A2.html] ] .

The law is thought to be a consequence of induced demand i.e. physicians encouraging patients to consume services that the patients would not have chosen had they been fully informed [ [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Du4F73qGaDUJ:dnichols.wustl.edu/352sp2005/supplier%2520induced%2520demand.pdf+%22roemer%27s+law%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a 403 Forbidden ] ] . Health planning and certificate of need laws aim to prevent the waste that would otherwise occur due to Roemer's Law.

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External links

*http://www.ph.ucla.edu/pr/miroemer.html


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