Significant variation in procedural volumes across military treatment facilities threatens the maintenance of critical skills for Army providers.
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Variation in procedural volumes may threaten skill maintenance for Army EPs; leaves open questions on standardization across MTFs.
This retrospective analysis demonstrates a significant variation in procedural volumes across MTFs, illustrating disproportionate opportunities for procedural skill maintenance among Army EPs. Low procedural volume threatens the maintenance of critical EP skills. These numbers could also suggest low skills for other providers (such as physician assistants), further illustrating decreased skill readiness throughout the force. Further research is needed to examine procedural volumes per individual EP, as well as those performed by other providers to evaluate for overall procedural readiness across the military force.
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