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!
Best Answer: In popular usage to this day, the letters SOS (no periods) are commonly believed to be an acronym for: Save Our Ship. Save Our Souls. Sink Or Swim. These are termed 'backronyms,' as explained below, and came into popular use AFTER SOS went into effect.