Real world impact of Christmas BMJ research

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Letters Taking the biscuit 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 Linked Feature Taking the biscuit: defining excessive quantities of free refreshments in a healthcare library

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.” 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 drinks and two packets of biscuits over the course of a working day.