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The National Quality (NQF) focuses on improving the quality of health care, with patient safety central to achieving the goal. About 100 of the 600 NQF endorsed quality measures are patient‐safety focused. NQF has endorsed 34 Safe Practices for Better Health Care and 28 Serious Reportable Events. There are still significant gaps in the measurement of patient safety. By convening panels and other educational forums, NQF works with quality measure developers and others in health care to help understand measurement gaps and encourage strategies to fill them. A list of 28 adverse events, also called Never Events because they should never occur in health care, are grouped into six categories; surgical, product or device related, patient protection, care management, environmental, radiologic, and potential criminal events (National Quality Forum, 2018).