OBJECTIVE To motivate healthcare professionals, with a focus on improving hand hygiene compliance. METHODS An observational, prospective, longitudinal study was conducted on the evaluation of hand hygiene compliance at Hera General Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from May 2009 to May 2010. Four components to improve hand hygiene compliance were implied; daily audit, monthly staff ed...

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...

Non compliance or low compliance to prescribed medical regimen is an ever present and complex problem, especially for patients with a chronic illness. This may adversely affect the patient health as it causes complications in form of chronic diseases, formation of resistant infections and persistent psychiatric illness etc .Certain issues and causes of non compliance and methods of improving pa...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education (mohme) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the ministry in implementing of emergency department triage system. the present study aimed at auditing the compliance of emergency department triage system in shahid madani hospital, in terms of compliance with mohme guideline, an...

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...

The pharmaceutical companies are getting more inclined towards patient support programs (PSPs) which assist patients and/or healthcare professionals (HCPs) in more desirable disease management and cost-effective treatment. The utmost objective of these programs is patient care. The PSPs may include financial assistance to patients, medicine compliance programs, access to HCPs via phone or onlin...

I appreciate the comments of van Veenen et al. Data concerning comparison of pulmonary compliance and effective compliance in the patient receiving mechanical ventilation are needed. Good correlation between these measurements in patients with low compliance documents the simpler estimate of effective compliance as a useful monitoring tool in the patient who is receiving mechanical ventilation ...