Compliance and Quality Together: Excellence, Superiority, and Market Differentiation
by Ms. Elizabeth O’Keeffe – Senior Counsel at PAREXEL International
The definition of “compliance”, according to Merriam-Webster:
* pronunciation: com·pli·ance
* function: noun
* Date: circa 1630
* 1 a: the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion b: conformity in fulfilling official requirements
* 2: a disposition to yield to others
* 3: the ability of an object to yield elastically when a force is applied : flexibility”
As stated in an article written by Jeffrey K. Aronson and published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology:
“The word ‘compliance’ comes from the Latin word complire, meaning to fill up and hence to complete an action, transaction, or process and to fulfill a promise. In the Oxford English Dictionary the relevant definition is ‘The acting in accordance with, or the yielding to a desire, request, condition, direction, etc.; a consenting to act in conformity with; an acceding to; practical assent.’”
