Patient Non-Compliance:

Terms Related to Patient Non-Compliance

• Patient Compliance

  Voluntary cooperation of the patient in following a prescribed regimen.

• Compliance

  Distensibility measure of a chamber such as the lungs (LUNG COMPLIANCE) or bladder. Compliance is expressed as a change in volume per unit change in ...

• User Compliance

  Voluntary cooperation of the patient in following a prescribed regimen.

• Coercion

  The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance. Force or the power to use force in gaining compliance as in potential or actual action ...

• Advance Directive Compliance

  Compliance by health personnel or proxies with the stipulations of ADVANCE DIRECTIVES (or similar directives such as RESUSCITATION ORDERS) when patients are unable to direct ...