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!
When an abbreviation appears at the end of a sentence, a single period serves both to mark the abbreviation and to close the sentence. See Examples and Observations below. Also see: 1  10 Tips for Using Abbreviations in Formal Writing.2  Acronym. 3  Backronym. 4  Commonly Confused Latin Abbreviations in English.he abbreviated form of the word abbreviation is abbr .--or, less commonly, abbrv. or abbrev. In American English, many abbreviations are followed by a period (Dr., Ms.).