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!
L. quaque die, every day. Most experts in the prevention of health care errors recommend that the abbreviation q.d. be written out as âdailyâ in order to prevent communication errors. q.d may be confused with q.i.d (four times a day), a mistake that could result in an unintentional overdose.