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!
How about Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is one name used for the most widespread calendrical year numbering scheme. Other names for the same year numbering scheme include Christian Era, also abbreviated as CE, and Anno Domini, abbreviated as AD. Cheers, --Dailycare (talk) 17:58, 1 January 2010 (UTC)