Nurses who provide discharge teaching to patients after colonoscopy call these patients the day after the procedure to check on their status. At that time, patients who have had polyps removed invariably ask how long it will be until they receive their results. The nurses decide to design a study in which they will change their discharge teaching, in order to include information about the time frame for biopsy results. The nurses then will measure patient satisfaction results, comparing them with the results for the previous month, before the change. Which type of research design will they use?

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The nurses are implementing a change (including information about the time frame for biopsy results in their discharge teaching) and then measuring the effect of this change on patient satisfaction. This involves manipulating an independent variable (the discharge teaching content) and measuring its effect on a dependent variable (patient satisfaction), without random assignment to groups, which is characteristic of a quasi-experimental design.

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