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.
The ASQ Quality Improvement Pocket Guide. Quality Glossary Definition: Continuous Improvement. Continuous improvement, sometimes called continual improvement, is the ongoing improvement of products, services or processes through incremental and breakthrough improvements. Continuous improvement is an ongoing effort to improve products, services or processes.