Advanced Practice Provider Clinics: Expediting Care For Children Undergoing Tympanostomy Tube Placement

Objective/Hypothesis Advanced practice provider (APP) employment is becoming common in pediatric otolaryngology practices, though few studies have evaluated the consequences that APP‐led clinics have on access to care. The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate whether access to bilateral myringotomy with tympanostomy tube placement (BMT) for recurrent acute otitis media (RAOM) differed between patients seen in otolaryngologist and APP‐led clinics 2) to compare clinical characteristics of patients seen by provider type. Methods Retrospective cohort study at an academic, tertiary care pediatric otolaryngology practice. All children were