Dawn Stacey

Professor Stacey holds the position of distinguished university professor. Previously, she held the University Research Chair in Knowledge Translation to Patients (2012–2024). A senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, she is also the co-scientific director of the Patient Decision Aids Research Group and member of the Centre for Implementation Research. She is internationally recognized for her expertise in decision and implementation sciences, focused on studying methods that increase research finding uptake to inform decisions affecting clinical practice, organizations and health policy.

Dawn Stacey’s research explores ways to help people make better health and health-care decisions. These decisions may have multiple options, uncertain outcomes and/or benefits and harms that people value differently. She also explores ways to help health-care professionals better support patients making health-care decisions.

In recognition of her outstanding and continuous accomplishments in research, Professor Stacey is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS), American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and Canadian Academy of Nursing (FCAN).

• Senior Scientist (2005–present)
  Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
• Adjunct Professor in Shared Decision-Making (2020–present)
  Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark

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Professor Stacey is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Patient decision aids
• Decision coaching
• Implementation of evidence into practice
• Telephone-based care
• Interprofessional approaches to shared decision making
• Oncology nursing
• Patient- and family-centred care

Professor Stacey’s research uses co-production to develop, evaluate and implement interventions to enable patients and their families to be actively involved as partners in making health-care decisions. She leads interdisciplinary research teams to conduct original research with graduate students and knowledge users (e.g., patients, families, health-care professionals, policymakers). Her research is directly in line with the core objectives of uOttawa’s Transformation 2030 strategic plan.

The following websites disseminate her research activities:

• Patient Decision Aids
• Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support (COSTaRS)

• PubMed
• ORCID

Key publications (*graduate students; †knowledge users)

• Stacey D, Lewis KB, Smith M, Carley M, Volk RJ, Douglas EE, Pacheco-Brousseau L, Finderup J, Gunderson J, Barry M, Bennette CL, Bravo P, Dahl Steffensen K, Gogovor A, Graham ID, Kelly SE, Legare F, Sondergaard H, Thomson R, Trenaman L, Trevena L. Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024.
  • Available on the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Patient Decision Aids Research Group.
• Stacey D, Ludwig C, Archambault P, Smith M, Taljaard M, Carley M, Plourde K, Boland L, Gogovor A, Graham I, Kobewka D, McLean RKD, Nelson MLA, Vanderspank-Wright B, Légaré F., (2023). Decisions and decisional needs of Canadians from all provinces and territories during the COVID-19 pandemic: population-based cross-sectional surveys. JMIR Public Health Surveill. Mar 21;9:e43652.
• Stacey D, Carley M, Davis A, for the COSTaRS Research Group. (2023). Evaluation of an educational program for nurses providing cancer symptom management: The pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support Online Tutorial. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal; 33(2); 182-189.
  • French version : Prise en charge des symptômes du cancer : Évaluation du tutoriel en ligne du Groupe de recherche pancanadien sur le triage des symptômes et l’aide à distance en oncologie. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal; 33(2); 190-198.
• Zhao J, Jull J, Finderup J, Smith M, Kienlin SM, Rahn, AC, Dunn S, Aoki Y, Brown L, Harvey G, Stacey D. (2022). Understanding how and under what circumstances decision coaching works for people making healthcare decisions: a realist review. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 22(1):265.
• Légaré, F., Stacey, D., Forest, P.-G., Archambault, P., Boland, L., Coutu, M.-F., Giguère, A. M. C., LeBlanc, A., Lewis, K. B., & Witteman, H. O. (2022). Shared decision-making in Canada: Update on integration of evidence in health decisions and patient-centred care government mandates. Zeitschrift Für Evidenz, Fortbildung Und Qualität Im Gesundheitswesen, 171, 22–29.
• Stacey D, Volk RJ, for the IPDAS Evidence Update Leads. (2021). The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration: Evidence update 2.0. Medical Decision Making. 41(7), 1-5.
• Jull J, Kopke S, ^†Smith M, Carley M, Finderup J, Rahn AC, Boland L, Dunn S, Dwyer AA, Kasper J, Kienlin SM, Légaré F, Lewis KB, ^†Lyddiatt A, Rutherford C, Zhao J, Rader T, Graham ID, Stacey D. Decision coaching for people making healthcare decisions Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Nov 8; 11(11):CD013385. (^†patient partners).
• Stacey D, *Ludwig C, Archambault P, †Babulic K, Edwards N, †Lavoie J, Sinha S, O’Connor AM (2021) Feasibility of rapidly developing and widely disseminating patient decision aids to respond to urgent decisional needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical Decision Making. 41(2), 233-239.
• Stacey D, Carley M, Newton J for the COSTaRS Research Group. (2020). Pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support (COSTaRS) practice guides: What’s changed in version 2020. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal. 30(4), 269-276. Guides de pratique de l’équipe pancanadienne de triage des symptômes et aide à distance en oncologie (COSTaRS) – Changements apportés à la version 2020. 30(4), 277-286.
• Stacey D, Légaré F, Boland L, Lewis KB, Loiselle MC, Hoefel L, Garvelink M, O'Connor A. (2020) 20th Anniversary Ottawa Decision Support Framework: Part 3 Overview of Systematic Reviews and Updated Framework. Med Decis Making. Apr;40(3):379-398.
• Hoefel L, O'Connor AM, Lewis KB, Boland L, Sikora L, Hu J, Stacey D. (2020). 20th Anniversary update of the Ottawa Decision Support Framework Part I: A systematic review of the decisional needs of people making health or social decisions. Medical Decision Making, 40(5): 555-581.
• Hoefel L, Lewis KB, O'Connor A, Stacey D. (2020) 20th Anniversary Update of the Ottawa Decision Support Framework: Part 2 Sub analysis of a Systematic Review of Patient Decision Aids. Med Decis Making. May;40(4):522-539.
• Boland L, Brosseau L, Caspar S, Graham ID, Hutchison AM, Kothari A, McNamara K, McInnes E, Angel M, Stacey D. (2020) Reporting health research translation and impact in the curriculum vitae: a survey. Implement Sci Commun. 2020 Mar 3;1:20.
• Stacey D, Suwalska V, Boland L, Lewis KB, Presseau J, Thomson R. Are patient decision aids used in clinical practice after rigorous evaluation? A survey of trial authors. Medical Decision Making. 2019 Oct;39(7):805-815.
• Stacey D, Légaré F, *Lewis KB (2017). Patient decision aids to engage adults in treatment and screening decisions. JAMA; 318(7): 657-658.
• Légaré, F., Stacey, D., Forest, P.-G., Coutu, M.-F., Archambault, P., Boland, L., Witteman, H. O., LeBlanc, A., Lewis, K. B., & Giguere, A. M. C. (2017). Milestones, barriers, and beacons: Shared decision making in Canada inches ahead. Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes. 123-124:23-27.
• Stacey D, Taljaard M, Dervin G, Tugwell P, O’Connor A, Pomey M-P, Boland L, Beach S, Meltzer D, Hawker G. (2016). Impact of patient decision aids on appropriate and timely access to hip or knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled trial. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 24(1), 99-107.
• Stacey D, †Green E, †Ballantyne B, †Tarasuk J, †Skrutkowski M, Carley M, †Chapman K, Kuziemsky C, †Kolari E, Sabo B, †Saucier A, †Shaw T, †Tardif L, *Truant T, Cummings G, Howell D. (2016). Implementation of symptom protocols for nurses providing telephone-based cancer symptom management: A comparative case study. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 13(6), 420-431.
• Stacey D, Kryworuchko J, Belkora J, Davison BJ, Durand MA, Eden KB, Hoffman AS, Koerner M, Légaré F, Loiselle MC, Street RL. (2013) Coaching and guidance with patient decision aids: A review of theoretical and empirical evidence. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 13(Suppl 2): S11.
• Stacey D, Murray MA, Stacey D, Higuchi KS, Menard P, Davies B, Graham ID, O’Connor AM. (2009) Integrating patient decision support in an undergraduate nursing curriculum: An implementation study. International Journal Nursing Education Scholarship, 6(1), 1-18.