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 illness. In this article we review the theoretical foundation of compliance behavior; methods of measuring compliance; established and promisin...

Compliance has become an important driver in business process management, as it requires profound and traceable changes of the processes. Besides the increasing demand for security, privacy and trust, compliance also needs consistent integration and management of process structures related to compliance. We use the notion of compliance fragments to refer to such structures. In this paper, we di...

In the light of an increasing demand on business process compliance, the veri cation of process models against compliance rules has become essential in enterprise computing. The SeaFlows Toolset featured in this tool demonstration extends process-aware information system by compliance checking functionality. It provides a user-friendly environment for modeling compliance rules using a graph-bas...

Today′s dynamically changing business and compliance environment demand enterprises to continuously ensure their compliance with various laws, regulations and standards. Several business studies have concluded that compliance management is one of the main challenges companies face nowadays. Runtime compliance monitoring is of utmost importance for compliance assurance as during the prior design...

In these experiments, two plates were grasped between the thumb and the index finger and squeezed together along a linear track. The force resisting the squeeze, produced by an electromechanical system under computer control, was programmed to be either constant (in the case of the force discrimination experiments) or linearly increasing (in the case of the compliance discrimination experiments...

This study shows that concerns about compliance with paper diaries are justified. Although patients reported high compliance, actual compliance was low and hoarding was common. The excellent compliance achieved with the electronic diary indicates that low compliance was not due to this particular sample or to an overly burdensome protocol. Overall, these results call into question the validity ...