To download the Fact Sheet on Fibromuscular Dysplasia, click here. For an FMD Dictionary with commonly-used terms, click here. Fibromuscular Dysplasia, commonly called FMD, is a disease that causes one or more arteries in the body to have abnormal cell development in the artery wall.
Quality Assurance (QA) = the process of meeting quality standards and assuring that care reaches an acceptable level. Performance Improvement (PI) = continuously analyzing your performance and developing systematic efforts to improve it; also known as Quality Improvement.
Many people are familiar with the term Quality Assurance (QA), as it was a common term for many years. 1  Quality Assurance â QA was reactive, retrospective, policing, and in many ways punitive. 2  Quality Improvement â QI involves both prospective and retrospective reviews. 3  QI activities can be very helpful in improving how things work.