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!
Which of the following might be used to indicate the cyclical component of a forecast? A. leading variable B. Mean Squared Error (MSE) C. Delphi technique D. exponential smoothing E. Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) Leading variables, such as births in a given year, can correlate strongly with long-term phenomena such as cycles.