Health Services: Available Research Shows That Capacity Is Only Weakly Related to Volume
PEMD-91-7
Published: Jan 31, 1991. Publicly Released: Mar 04, 1991.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined completed studies of health services delivery, focusing on: (1) the relationship between health services capacity and volume of services provided; and (2) any research gaps that need to be filled to reliably assess the validity of Roemer's law, which assumes that increases in health services capacity lead to increases in demand.
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