NQF Serious Reportable Events

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The NQF list of Serious Reportable Events is sometimes called the list of Never Events. This report identifies 29 serious reportable events (SREs) considered preventable. Examples: wrong surgery; deaths or serious injury associated with medication error, or in a low-risk pregnancy, or due to a fall, or from failure to follow up on test results, or associated with certain MRI incidents; Stage 3 or 4 pressure ulcers. Applies to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and ambulatory surgery centers. Updated edition; published by National Quality Forum (NQF)