Compliance Explained

Compliance can mean:

Healthcare

• Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
• Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning)
  • Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure
• Compliance (psychology), responding favorably to a request offered by others

Other uses

• Compliance (film), released in 2012
• "Compliance" (song), single from the 2022 studio album by the English rock band Muse
• Compliance, in mechanical science, is the inverse of stiffness
• Compliant mechanism, a flexible mechanism
• Environmental compliance, conforming to environmental laws, regulations, standards and other requirements
• Regulatory compliance, adherence to standards, regulations, and other requirements
• Compliance with web standards

See also

• Governance, risk management, and compliance