BACKGROUND Little is known about the influence of compliance with neuromuscular training (NMT) on the knee injury rate in football. AIM To evaluate team and player compliance with an NMT programme in adolescent female football and to study the association between compliance and acute knee injury rates. METHODS Prospective cohort study based on a cluster randomised controlled trial on player...

OBJECTIVE To identify and characterize treatment compliance profiles of glaucoma patients and evaluate the association with intraocular pressure (IOP). METHODS A computerized device (Travalert((R))) that recorded daily instillation times and eye-drop counts was given for 3 months. Patients were declared compliant when at least 2 drops were instilled per day. Compliance rates were calculated f...

Compliance checking is gaining importance as today’s organizations need to show that operational processes are executed in a controlled manner while satisfying predefined (legal) requirements or service level agreements. Deviations may be costly and expose an organization to severe risks. Compliance checking is of growing importance for the business process management and auditing communities. ...

Low patient cooperation erodes many of the proven benefits of antihypertensive therapy. Over the last few years, there have been important advances in our understanding of the nature and management of patient compliance in hypertension and other chronic illnesses. In this article we review the theoretical foundation of compliance behavior; methods of measuring compliance; established and promis...

BACKGROUND The study comprised three interrelated aims: (1) to ascertain (a) patient compliance with physiotherapy, exercise, enzyme and vitamin regimens, (b) how compliance was perceived by patients, and (c) the reasons for poor compliance (2) to identify demographic and clinical variables associated with compliance; and (3) to determine how accurately patient compliance can be predicted by ca...

In the slitting method, a small width slit is created incrementally through the thickness of the stressed specimen and the released strains in each increment are recorded by a strain gauge. Compliance coefficients relate the measured strains to the residual stresses. This paper investigates the important parameters influencing the calculation of compliance coefficients for isotropic plates and ...

Background and Objective: Compared to the general population, psychiatric problems are more prevalent in Type 1 Diabetes patients and can affect the success of diabetes treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of group reality therapy in decreasing depression/anxiety and increasing treatment compliance in patients with Type 1 Diabetes in Zanjan in 2017. Materials a...

AIMS Non-compliance in patients with heart failure (HF) contributes to worsening HF symptoms and may lead to hospitalization. Several smaller studies have examined compliance in HF, but all were limited as they only studied either the individual components of compliance and its related factors or several aspects of compliance without studying the related factors. The aims of this study were to ...

Process compliance deals with the ability of a company to ensure that its business processes comply with domain-specific regulations and rules. So far, compliance issues have been mainly addressed for intra-organizational business processes, whereas there exists only little work dealing with compliance in the context of cross-organizational processes that involve multiple business partners. As ...