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

question 20

Multiple Choice

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?

• A)Exact replication
• B)Concurrent replication
• C)Systematic replication
• D)Approximate replication

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