Pre-discharge home visits: A qualitative exploration of the experience of occupational therapists and multidisciplinary stakeholders.

This qualitative study provides information on factors influencing decision-making regarding pre-discharge home visits from the hospital setting. Clinical factors were presented as key considerations, but clinicians' experiences and perceptions of contextual influences suggest an explanatory factor for practice variation. While multidisciplinary stakeholders' broadly demonstrated similar rationales for pre-discharge home visits as those of occupational therapists, therapists' decision-making processes for pre-discharge home visits were shaped by their experience level. Clinicians' experience finds pre-discharge home visits to have value and in the absence of clear evidence-based criteria for whom this element of practice should be provided, participants supported the development of a decision-making support tool to assist in decision-making.