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!
Common Terms and Abbreviations Used in Obstetrics. LMP = Last Menstrual Period. Use the first day of the last menstrual period to calculate the due date. The quick way to do it in your head is to count backwards 3 months from the first day of the LMP, then add 7 days. So if the LMP was 8/15, the 3 months backwards is 5 (May) plus 7 days added to the 15th=22, so the due date is May 22. EDC or EDD = the due date.