Telehealth incorporated the cost-saving ability for HPN patients to maintain proper medical care, support, and collaboration of specialists inaccessible to their local community. Thus, its strongly positive role in HPN care deserves further consideration for a national application.

In our HPN population, 76% had MBD and 24% had previous fractures. The results suggest that these patients may benefit from pamidronate. More studies are needed to assess the efficacy of pamidronate.

Health and wellness coaching has rapidly become a best practice element of worksite health promotion programs. Coaching as a process is a very old technology, but its use in the field of health promotion is relatively new. Coaching can be provided in different forms or modalities yet currently lacks a rigorous science base or a defined set of standards or common elements. In larger worksite settings several variants or forms of coaching are usually provided to employee populations. The need for more proactive and direct forms of intervention in health promotion is contributing to the rapid growth of coaching programs. There are currently an assortment of coaching strategies or techniques that are in common use in most coaching interventions. A main contention of current coaching practice is that coaching that uses facilitation strategies rather than prescriptive advice is more effective at producing long term behavior change. The congruence and size of wellness incentives with the coaching process are likely to be of significant importance. From a long term perspective, coaching is likely to become a staple of worksite health promotion practice.

Spurious bloodwork was due to parenteral nutrition contamination by incorrect blood draw techniques. This led to a policy amendment to incorporate a "wait time" between stopping the parenteral nutrition infusion and drawing blood and to an institution-wide nursing reeducation.