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“NEVER EVENTS”—LIABILITY for the HEALTHCARE PROVIDER?

The National Quality Forum (NQF), an advocacy group focused on developing a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement, identified 28 adverse events in 2002 now commonly referred to as “never events.” Such events are considered preventable and as such should never occur in any healthcare setting. Some examples of never events are decubitus, urinary tract […]