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.
One definition of quality assurance is: all the planned and systematic activities implemented within the quality system that can be demonstrated to provide confidence that a product or service will fulfill requirements for quality. One definition for quality control is: the operational techniques and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality. Often, however, âquality assuranceâ and âquality controlâ are used interchangeably, referring to the actions performed to ensure the quality of a product, service or process.