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!
In most usages, BCE stands for âBefore the Common Era,â and CE stands for âCommon Era.â BCE is used in place of BC, and CE is used in place of AD. The word âCommonâ in both instances refers to the date employed by the most commonly used calendar system, the Gregorian Calendar. The years are the same, only the designations are different. For example, 400 BCE is the same as 400 BC, and 2011 CE is the same as 2011 AD. There is another less frequent meaning in use for the âCâ in the new BCE and CE designations, in that the âCâ stands for âCurrent,â the implication being that there is yet another era still to come.