Dawn Stacey

Dawn Stacey

RN, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN, CON(C)

Senior Scientist, Methodological and Implementation Research

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Member of the Centre for Implementation Research

Co-Scientific Director, Patient Decision Aids Research Group

Contact

613-737-8899 73817

https://decisionaid.ohri.ca http://health.uottawa.ca/people/stacey-dawn

Bio

Dawn Stacey RN PhD FRSC, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN, CON(C) is a Distinguished Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. She is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute where she is Co-Scientific Director of the Patient Decision Aids Research Group. She is the principal-investigator for the Cochrane Review of Patient Decision Aids, co-chair of the Steering Committee for the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration (IPDAS), and co-investigator for the Cochrane Review of Interventions to Improve the Adoption of Shared Decision Making. Her research program website is http://decisionaid.ohri.ca.

Research Goals and Interests

Her research interests include: knowledge translation to patients; patient decision aid development, evaluation and appraisal; decision coaching; implementation of decision aids and decision coaching into practice; telephone-based care, and interprofessional approaches to shared decision making.

More information about the Centre for Implementation Research

The overall goal of my research program is to advance the science of knowledge translation† (KT) for patients through understanding, measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of KT interventions for patients and by evaluating strategies to enhance patient engagement in shared decision making (SDM). Specific objectives for the research program are as follows:
a) Develop and evaluate KT interventions in English and French designed to improve the quality of health decisions and measure their effect on patient outcomes;
b) Establish best practices to implement and sustain use of KT interventions to support patient involvement in making health decisions;
c) Conduct ongoing updates of systematic reviews to synthesize the evidence on KT interventions (e.g. patient decision aids, decision coaching), and approaches to enhance SDM in practice.


News


Publications

Leading with options or issues to support purposeful shared decision-making in clinical practice

2025-12-01 Go to publication

Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Minimal Criteria Instrument for the Portuguese Population

2025-07-01 Go to publication

Effectiveness of patient decision aids for cardiovascular decisions: systematic review with sex/gender-based analysis

2025-05-29 Go to publication

The Effect of Patient Decision Aid Attributes on Patient Outcomes: A Network Meta-Analysis of a Systematic Review

2025-05-01 Go to publication

What Is the Effectiveness of Type 2 Diabetes–related Patient Decision Aids? Secondary Analysis of a Systematic Review

2025-04-01 Go to publication

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