A master's student who works in cardiothoracic ICU reads a 20-year-old nursing research study; the findings document use of much larger per-kilogram amounts of opioids and anxiolytics postoperatively in adults with open-heart surgery, as opposed to children with open-heart surgery. The student strongly suspects that modern hospitals medicate children and adults more or less the same, on a per-kilogram basis. The student decides to replicate the original research in the student's hospital. What type of replication is this?

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Approximate replication is a type of replication in which the researcher makes some changes to the original study, such as using a different sample or different methods. In this case, the student is making changes to the original study by using a different sample (children instead of adults) and a different setting (a modern hospital instead of a hospital 20 years ago).

A Master's Student Who Works in Cardiothoracic ICU Reads a 20-Year-Old