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.
Quality Improvement is a formal approach to the analysis of performance and systematic efforts to improve it. There are numerous models used. These models are all means to get at the same thing: Improvement. They are forms of ongoing effort to make performance better.