This paper studies the relationship between medical compliance and health outcomes - hospitalization and mortality rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow individual patients through all their accesses to public health care services until they either die or leave the local health authority. We adopt a disease specific ...

The majority of hypertensive individuals require drug therapy to control blood pressure levels. Lifestyle changes and regular use of prescribed medication can significantly contribute to controlling hypertension. A correlation between non-drug compliance and insufficient blood pressure control was noted amongst hyperten-sive individuals. Therefore, in order to minimize the risk of hypertension ...

Compliance is required at all stages of drug development including process development (PD) laboratories, clinical trials, pilot plants and large-scale manufacturing. If a drug company uses different instruments—for example, pH sensors—at each stage, it has to keep records on each one, and then integrate new sensors into the next stage of the process. Today, modern instruments have built-in tec...