(a.) Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn.
Example Sentences:
(1) In-patients with psychiatric or psychosomatic disorders were more incompliant than the other ones.
(2) Autogenous-vein grafts have a dynamic response to the arterial pressure pulse (compliance) which approaches that of normal arterial wall, whereas synthetic prostheses are generally incompliant, or become so shortly after implantation.
(3) The Council also accused the novel of "incompliance with moral norms" and "hurting people's moral feelings".
(4) It is possible that an explanation of this increase incompliance is to be found in the rearrangement of myocardial fibres which follows the dilatation.
Noncompliance
Definition:
(n.) Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a multivariate regression model noncompliance was significantly associated with the absence of AIDS or ARC (p less than 0.001), homelessness (p less than 0.005), and alcoholism (p less than 0.05).
(2) This is due to contraindications and, more important, noncompliance of patients.
(3) Aberrantly low plasma levels are more likely due to surreptitious noncompliance or drug interactions with enzyme inducers such as carbamazepine.
(4) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
(5) Patient education and confrontation regarding noncompliance did not reduce major asthma episodes.
(6) These data fail to support an independent association of black race with morbidity in SLE; rather, they suggest that noncompliance (as measured by physician global assessment) and type of medical insurance are important factors in morbidity.
(7) There was no significant difference in the incidence of noncompliance with respect to cadaveric vs. living-related donor kidney source, or in male vs. female patients.
(8) Prehospital care providers, a group not accountable to the institution, remained particularly noncompliant with only 13% adherence.
(9) Increasing deterioration of qualitative PPG values of deep-valve assessment was found in both compliant and noncompliant patients at each testing interval.
(10) Finally, following brief time-out training for noncompliance, the mothers used the procedure only 50% of the time following noncompliance.
(11) Treatment consisted of a standardized parent training program to modify child noncompliance.
(12) Stress reduced the quality of problem solving in both compliant and noncompliant parents, but even under high stress, compliant parents demonstrated better problem-solving abilities than noncompliant parents.
(13) Last month he told MPs on the education select committee he doubted there was any proof of noncompliance with the standards by academies, which Oliver has warned risks creating a two-tier system where some pupils receive healthy food and others do not.
(14) Either patient noncompliance or true medication failure accounted for treatment failure.
(15) Consequences of such high noncompliance on the efficiency and effectiveness of health-care delivery systems are dramatic and obvious.
(16) Although the basis of this noncompliance is multifactorial, it is largely related to deterioration in a patient's quality of life produced by the commonly prescribed antihypertensive agents.
(17) Two patients died, two patients clinically deteriorated, and one patient was noncompliant.
(18) Results indicated that the three self-report measures were unrelated to the measures of patient noncompliance and patient satisfaction, but self-reported affective communication ability was significantly correlated with physician workload.
(19) Hill-Burton hospital audits have revealed widespread facility noncompliance.
(20) Medication noncompliance in 64 percent, and identifiable psychosocial stressors in 55 percent, were also likely contributors to rehospitalization.