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Real world impact of Christmas BMJ research

BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2879 (Published 20 December 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;383:p2879

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Taking the biscuit: defining excessive quantities of free refreshments in a healthcare library
  1. Stuart Spicer, PenARC research fellow1,
  2. Graham Johnson, emergency/paediatric emergency medicine consultant and honorary assistant professor2 3,
  3. Andrew Tabner, emergency medicine consultant and honorary assistant professor2 3,
  4. Jill Matthews, chief officer4,
  5. Kerryn Husk, associate professor of health services research1
  1. 1University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
  2. 2Emergency Department, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK
  3. 3University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
  4. 4Derby and Burton Hospitals Charity, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby
  1. andrew.tabner{at}nhs.net

Regular readers of The BMJ’s Christmas issue may have seen our 2022 article, “Taking the biscuit: defining excessive quantities of free refreshments in a healthcare library,” investigating staff attitudes towards free refreshments and what constitutes “excessive consumption.”1

This work identified that most people, when faced with the potential for unlimited free hot drinks and biscuits, would take no more than three free hot …

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