The National Quality Forum® (NQF®) is a not-for-profit organization that works to improve healthcare outcomes, safety, and affordability for all people by bringing all voices to the table for consensus on quality measurement and improvement standards.
NQF® developed a unified, consensus-based, updated list of the Serious Reportable Events (SREs) that reflects the full range of today’s care delivery settings and modalities and fosters alignment of disparate definitions and terminologies used when interpreting harm events and subsequent reporting adherence. Effective January 2027 Joint Commission will update the Sentinel Events List by ...
NQF’s SRE List, launched in 2002, comprises a subset of patient safety events that are serious and largely preventable and may be indicative of a problem with a healthcare setting’s underlying safety systems.
The National Quality Forum® (NQF®) is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to improve healthcare outcomes, safety, and affordability for all people. Our unique role is to bring all voices to our table to forge multistakeholder consensus on quality measurement and improvement standards and practices that achieve measurable health improvements for all. NQF is ...
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NQF members are diverse experts building consensus on measurement standards that improve healthcare outcomes, safety, and affordability for all people. Our strategic affiliation with The Joint Commission aligns measures across payers, purchasers, patients and providers, making them clinically meaningful and feasible.