title: Embedding technology into inter-professional best practices in home safety evaluation.
abstract: To explore inter-professional home evaluators' perspectives and needs for building useful and acceptable decision-support tools for the field of home modifications.
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  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 rehabilitation Understanding 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.
authors.affiliation: a School of Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman's University , Dallas , TX , USA.
authors.forename: Suzanne Perea
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: a School of Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman's University , Dallas , TX , USA.
authors.forename: Noralyn Davel
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Pickens
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002028:Building Codes; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D000067013:Evidence-Based Facility Design; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D000072087:Occupational Therapists / Q000523:psychology; D059825:Physical Therapists / Q000523:psychology; D012449:Safety; D014481:United States
keywords: Environmental design; home adaptations; interdisciplinary communication; software design