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!
To remedy that problem, the two separate periods can be shown on the same analog clock by using the AM and PM suffixes. As we said above, AM stands for âante meridiemâ or before noon in Latin, so it is used to describe the first portion of the day â the first 12 hours. On the other hand, PM stands for âpost meridiemâ or after noon in Latin and itâs used to describe the second portion of the day â the final 12 hours.