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.
Defining Quality. Quality assurance relies on a strict definition of what is acceptable and not acceptable from a product or service. If a customer has ordered a widget from your company that is to be cut into three-inch pieces, then a four-inch piece does not meet the quality standard.