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!
Or are you saying id (lower case i, lower case d). If it's id (both lower case) as an abbreviation for idem, you do not use a period after the period. The only instance in English that I am aware of when you use two consecutive periods is a 4-dot ellipsis when the ellipsis is at the end of the sentence. Source(s): Mamie Â· 6 years ago. Thumbs up.