Privacy & Security. Model Notices of Privacy Practices. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collaborated to develop model Notices of Privacy Practices for health care providers and health plans for use when communicating with their patients and plan members.
Q.O.D. = every other day. Q.A.D. = every alternate day. Technically speaking, I would be hard pressed to find a difference. Nevertheless, I have spent a lifetime writing q.o.d. on prescriptions so that pharmacists can transcribe the latin abbreviation back into plain English for the patient. What a useless step!
An abbreviation is simply a shortened form of a word. Generally, abbreviations begin with a capital letter and end with a period. For example, the month of November can be abbreviated to read: Nov. We can also abbreviate the days of the week so that Tuesday could be written as Tues.tate abbreviations are one example where a period is not used in its abbreviated form. âMIâ is the abbreviation for Michigan. âMTâ is the abbreviation for Montana. âMAâ is the abbreviation for Massachusetts.