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.
What Is Continuous Quality Improvement? CQI is an approach to quality management that builds upon traditional quality assurance methods. It focuses on process rather than the individual, recognizes both internal and external clients and promotes the need for objective data to analyze and improve processes.