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!
Yes, you do use a period. The reason for using the period is to indicate that it is an abbreviation, not a word. For example, cat is a four legged animal while cat. is catalogâ¦. The exception is the two letter US Postal abbreviations or compass points (N, SW, etc.), no periods are used. 1 person found this useful.