Susanne Hempel

Behavioral Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in psychology, Martin Luther University

Overview

Biography

Susanne Hempel is a behavioral scientist at RAND and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She works at the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) carrying out systematic reviews in health service research. Her background is psychology and prior to RAND she worked at the Center for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), York, UK.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Safety of Probiotics
  • Associations between trial quality and effect sizes

Selected Publications

Hempel S, Suttorp MJ, Miles JNV, Wang Z, Maglione M, Morton S, Johnsen B, Valentine D, Shekelle PG., Empirical Evidence of Associations between Trial Quality and Effect Sizes, AHRQ, 2011 (forthcoming)

Hempel S, Newberry S, Ruelaz A, Wang Z, Miles J, Suttorp M, Johnsen B, Shanman R, Fu N, Smith A, Roth E, Polak J, Motala A, Perry T, & Shekelle PG, Safety of Probiotics, AHRQ, 2011 (forthcoming)

Susanne Hempel, David A. Ganz, Megan Clifford, Sydne Newberry, Yee-Wei Lim, Jody Larkin, Roberta M. Shanman, Samuel Wertheimer, Neil S. Wenger, Carol P. Roth, Paul G. Shekelle, Review of the Current Literature on Outcome Measures Applicable to the Medicare Population for Use in a Quality Improvement Program, RAND Working Paper (WR-806-CMS), 2011

Danz, M., Rubenstein, L., Hempel, S., Foy, R., Farmer, M. & Shekelle, P., "Identifying quality improvement intervention evaluations - is consensus achievable?" Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19(4):279-83, 2010

Foy, R., Hempel, S., Rubenstein, L, Suttorp, M, Shanman, R., Seelig, M. & Shekelle, P., "Meta-analysis: effect of interactive communication between collaborating primary care physicians and specialists.," Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(4):247-58, 2010

Rubenstein LV, Hempel S, Farmer MM, Asch SM, Yano EM, Dougherty D, Shekelle PW., "Finding order in heterogeneity: types of quality-improvement intervention publications," Qual Saf Health Care, 16(6):403-8, 2008

Hempel S, Norman G, Golder S, Aguiar-Ibáñez R, Eastwood A., "Psychosocial interventions for non-professional carers of people with Parkinson's disease: a systematic scoping review.," J Adv Nurs, 64(3):214-28, 2008

Hempel S, Chambers D, Bagnall AM, Forbes C., "Risk factors for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: a systematic scoping review of multiple predictor studies.," Psychol Med., 38(7):915-26, 2008

Publications

Probiotics for the Prevention and Treatment of Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - 2012

Review of the Evidence on Falls Prevention in Hospitals: Task 4 Final Report - 2012

A Framework for Classifying Patient Safety Practices: Results from an Expert Consensus Process - 2011

Advancing the Science of Patient Safety - 2011

Conducting Online Expert Panels: A Feasibility and Experimental Replicability Study - 2011

Empirical Evidence of Associations Between Trial Quality and Effect Size - 2011

How Does Context Affect Interventions to Improve Patient Safety? An Assessment of Evidence from Studies of Five Patient Safety Practices and Proposals for Research - 2011

Identifying Continuous Quality Improvement Publications: What Makes an Improvement Intervention 'CQI'? - 2011

Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Publications - a Comparison of Electronic Search Strategies - 2011

Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Nurse-Focused Quality Improvement Interventions - 2011

Review of the Current Literature on Outcome Measures Applicable to the Medicare Population for Use in a Quality Improvement Program: Project Deliverable 2a, 2b - 2011

Safety of Probiotics to Reduce Risk and Prevent or Treat Disease - 2011

The Role of Theory in Research to Develop and Evaluate the Implementation of Patient Safety Practices - 2011

What Context Features Might Be Important Determinants of the Effectiveness of Patient Safety Practice Interventions? - 2011

Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria - 2010

Guide to Designing, Conducting, Publishing, and Communicating Results of Clinical Studies Involving Probiotic Applications in Human Participants - 2010

Meta-analysis: Effect of Interactive Communication Between Collaborating Primary Care Physicians and Specialists - 2010

Finding Order in Heterogeneity: Types of Quality-Improvement Intervention Publications - 2008

Psychosocial Interventions for Non-Professional Careers of People with Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Scoping Review - 2008