"alter the approach" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to changing the way you are doing something. For example: "We need to alter the approach we're taking if we want to complete the project on time."
The aides and lobbyists said they expected the new lineup, which must be approved by Republican senators next week, would considerably alter the approach of the various panels.
Such pressures can, potentially, alter the approach they may take on the issue of non-urgent ED attendances.
Jane Stewart of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, who studies the involvement of CRH receptors in addictive behavior, explains that "the stress may activate pathways that have nothing directly to do with fear and anxiety but which alter the approach to alcohol itself".
"If our industry could find a way to create a compensation system that provides personal financial reward for results -- as is found in for-profit businesses -- it could radically alter the approach to delivering value to beneficiaries," said one programme manager, who declined to be identified.
The new information from breast pathologists will almost certainly alter the approach.
Nevertheless, classifying patients in this way might conceivably alter the approach to management, specifically the level of aggressiveness of treatment.
Mr. Muhly too often conveys the drama through murmuring, ritualized episodes rather than activating the words and altering the approach to the vocal writing.
One interpretation is that ATPD subtly attenuated reward salience and altered the approach by which individuals achieved successful performance, without resulting in frank group differences in task performance.
The new data on anomalies in seasonal dynamics of chlorophyll concentration in the ocean have altered the approach to the analysis of long-term trends of phytopigments in the surface layer of the ocean.
New classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis, better definitions of treatment outcome and remission, and the introduction of biologic response-modifying drugs designed to inhibit the inflammatory process have greatly altered the approach to managing this disease.
