Compliance can mean:
Healthcare
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Compliance (medicine)
In medicine, patient compliance (also adherence, capacitance) describes the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice. Most commonly, it refers to medication or drug compliance, but it can also apply to other situations such as m ...
, a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
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Compliance (physiology)
Compliance is the ability of a hollow organ (vessel) to distend and increase volume with increasing transmural pressure or the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions on application of a distending or compressin ...
, the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning)
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Pulmonary compliance
The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and most other animals, including some snails and a small number of fish. In mammals and most other vertebrates, two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of ...
(or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure
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Compliance (psychology)
Compliance is a response—specifically, a submission—made in reaction to a request. The request may be explicit (e.g., foot-in-the-door technique) or implicit (e.g., advertising). The target may or may not recognize that they are being urged ...
, responding favorably to a request offered by others
Other uses
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''Compliance'' (film), released in 2012
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''Compliance'' (song), single from the 2022 studio album by the English rock band Muse
* Compliance, in mechanical science, is the inverse of
stiffness
Stiffness is the extent to which an object resists deformation in response to an applied force.
The complementary concept is flexibility or pliability: the more flexible an object is, the less stiff it is.
Calculations
The stiffness, k, of a b ...
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Compliant mechanism
In mechanical engineering, a compliant mechanism is a flexible mechanism that achieves force and motion transmission through elastic body deformation. It gains some or all of its motion from the relative flexibility of its members rather than fro ...
, a flexible mechanism
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Environmental compliance
Environmental compliance means conforming to environmental laws, regulations, standards and other requirements such as site permits to operate. In recent years, environmental concerns have led to a significant increase in the number and scope o ...
, conforming to environmental laws, regulations, standards and other requirements
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Regulatory compliance
In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law. Compliance has traditionally been explained by reference to the deterrence theory, according to which punishing a behavior will decrease the viol ...
, adherence to standards, regulations, and other requirements
* Compliance with
web standards
Web standards are the formal, non-proprietary standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of s ...
See also
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Governance, risk management, and compliance
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) is the term covering an organization's approach across these three practices: governance, risk management, and compliance. The first scholarly research on GRC was published in 2007 by Scott L. Mitc ...
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