Black medicine: an observational study of doctors’ coffee purchasing patterns at work

Giesinger, Karlmeinrad; Hamilton, David F; Erschbamer, Matthias; Jost, Bernhard; Giesinger, Johannes M

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate doctors’ coffee consumption at work and differences between specialties.

Design: Single centre retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Large teaching hospital in Switzerland.

Participants: 766 qualified doctors (425 men, 341 women) from all medical specialties (201 internal medicine, 76 general surgery, 67 anaesthetics, 54 radiology, 48 orthopaedics, 43 gynaecology, 36 neurology, 23 neurosurgery, 96 other specialties).

Data source: Staff purchasing history from staff canteens’ electronic payment system linked to separate anonymised personal data from the human resource database.

Main outcome measure: Numbers of coffees purchased per person per year.

Results: 84% (644) of doctors purchased coffee at one of the hospital canteens. 70 772 coffees were consumed by doctors in 2014. There was a significant association between specialty and yearly coffee purchasing (F=12.45; P

Citation

Giesinger, K., Hamilton, D. F., Erschbamer, M., Jost, B., & Giesinger, J. M. (2015). Black medicine: an observational study of doctors’ coffee purchasing patterns at work. BMJ, 351, h6446. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6446

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Dec 16, 2015
• Publication Date: Dec 16, 2015
• Deposit Date: Nov 9, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 12, 2020
• Journal: BMJ
• Print ISSN: 0959-8138
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 351
• Pages: h6446
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6446
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2698569