Enhancing patients' compliance

Communicating with the Client: Enhancing Compliance

Determinants of compliance with antiretroviral therapy in patients with human immunodeficiency virus: prospective assessment with implications for enhancing compliance.

Non-compliance with therapy is a significant problem, particularly when the disease process is chronic and therapeutic regimens are employed for prolonged periods. We assessed the prevalence and variables associated with compliance with antiretroviral therapy in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection, by means of a longitudinal observational study of 46 patients aged 23 to 68 year...

Enhancing suggestibility: the effects of compliance vs. imagery.

For more than 30 years, studies based on a social-learning, cognitive skill model of hypnotic responsiveness have documented appreciable increases on behavioral and subjective measures of susceptibility following hypnotizability modification training (Diamond, l972; Gfeller, Lynn, & Pribble, l987; Kinney & Sachs, l974; Sachs & Anderson, l967; Springer, Sachs, & Morrow, l977). By far the most im...

Enhancing RUP for CMMI compliance: A methodological approach

In this paper1, I describe new process elements that allow RUP to overcome these weaknesses. I discuss some experiences in which RUP has been used to assist IT organizations in achieving a higher level of process capabilities, then present the software process improvement approach that we are using to guide our work. I also describe the new process elements that would be created to overcome the...

Pulmonary compliance and effective compliance in patients receiving mechanical ventilation.

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