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!
The term we associate with the morning, a.m. , is an abbreviation the Latin phrase ante merÄ«diem meaning âbefore middayâ; p.m. is an abbreviation of post merÄ«diem, meaningâyou guessed itââafter midday.â These two terms help keep ambiguity at bay in the 12-hour time system.n formal writing, it is best to lowercase both a.m. and p.m. and retain the periods (as opposed to writing them AM / PM or am/pm); however, should you choose to use a different format, the most important rule is to be consistent throughout your piece.