Achieving patient compliance

Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment

Patient compliance in glaucoma.

Of a randomly selected sample of 40 patients with chronic simple glaucoma 11 were identified as having failed to comply adequately with medical advice. Noncompliers were more likely: to be men, to have had no other medical disorder but glaucoma, not to rank glaucoma as most troubling if they had another illness, to have experienced side effects from the treatment, and not to have appreciated th...

Patient compliance: a determinant of patient satisfaction?

Recent studies have shown that there is a distinct relationship between patient satisfaction and patient compliance in orthodontic treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate whether patient compliance, as noticed and recorded by the orthodontist during treatment, can be used as a determinant of patient's satisfaction in the long run. Documentation of 100 patients who completed active o...

Laboratory 2000 - The challenge of achieving efficiency and compliance

Significant advances within the field of laboratory automation and instrumentation have greatly benefited the pharmaceutical industry in its quest to discover, develop and monitor the quality of its products. Necessitated by the need for efficiency and greater productivity, faster and more cost-effective means of analyses exist in the form of devices made up of complex electromechanical compone...

Rural hospitals' strategies for achieving compliance with HIPAA privacy requirements.

and Accountability Act (HIPAA) directed the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to adopt uniform national standards to protect the confidentiality of health information. HIPAA requires hospitals and other covered entities to take steps to safeguard against the misuse of individually identifiable health information and to limit the sharing of this information. Health care consumers ar...