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Embedding technology into inter-professional best practices in home safety evaluation.

Purpose:To explore inter-professional home evaluators’ perspectives and needs for building useful and acceptable decision-support tools for the field of home modifications. Method:Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of home modification professionals from different regions...

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Published in:Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology Vol. 12; no. 6; pp. 585 - 592
Main Authors: Burns, Suzanne Perea, Pickens, Noralyn Davel
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2017
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          Burns, Suzanne Perea
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        affil: School of Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman's University, Dallas, TX, USA
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          Home Safety Evaluation
          Technology Utilization
          Interprofessional Relations
          Decision Support Techniques
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          Semi-Structured Interview
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          Qualitative Studies
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          Snowball Sample
          Data Analysis Software
      ab: Purpose:To explore inter-professional home evaluators’ perspectives and needs for building useful and acceptable decision-support tools for the field of home modifications. Method:Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of home modification professionals from different regions of the United States. The interview transcripts were analyzed with a qualitative, descriptive, perspective approach. Results:Technology supports current best practice and has potential to inform decision making through features that could enhance home evaluation processes, quality, efficiency and inter-professional communication. Conclusions:Technological advances with app design have created numerous opportunities for the field of home modifications. Integrating technology and inter-professional best practices will improve home safety evaluation and intervention development to meet client-centred and societal needs.Implications for rehabilitationUnderstanding home evaluators technology needs for home safety evaluations contributes to the development of app-based assessments.Integrating inter-professional perspectives of best practice and technological needs in an app for home assessments improves processes.Novice and expert home evaluators would benefit from decision support systems embedded in app-based assessments.Adoption of app-based assessment would improve efficiency while remaining client-centred.
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