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.
I agree with Travis, but I'd like to add that the term quality assurance means far more than testing, and far more than code reviews. What you want is a developer to evaluate the code, and that's a great start towards making a quality product. But this is just a single step, and not a strategy for quality.