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The NQF Measure Incubator is an innovative effort that facilitates efficient measure development and testing through collaboration and partnership. It addresses important aspects of care for which quality measures are underdeveloped or nonexistent. Even though there are hundreds of measures to define various aspects of health and health care quality, there are still gaps where measures are important in driving improvement. Several of these gaps represent work where nurses figure prominently. Some examples of gap areas include palliative and end‐of‐life care, diagnostic accuracy, behavioral health, and care of people with multiple chronic conditions and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. And while measures of patient satisfaction exist, these and measures of patient‐reported outcomes are still needed. The Measure Incubator connects groups interested in particular measure concepts with measure development experts, financial and technical resources, and continuous sources of data. It is unclear whether nurses are currently engaged in any of the Measure Incubator projects.