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Welcome to BMA library's MEDLINE Plus

A service for BMA members

To search MEDLINE Plus please log in to the website. When logged in you can access MEDLINE Plus at any point in the website by selecting the Medline link in the blue menu at top right of the screen.

What are the features of MEDLINE Plus? Read on

Any queries? If our frequently asked questions page doesn't have your answer, please contact the MEDLINE Plus help desk, telephone 020 7383 6582 or email: info.medline@bma.org.uk and quote your BMA membership number.

Please be warned that although MEDLINE Plus is a very powerful search tool, searches carried out using the system will not be able to retrieve all that has been published on a particular subject.

For example, an inexperienced searcher may find only 15% of the total available information in MEDLINE (only 50% of which may in fact be included in the database), a professional searcher only 45% of the total available information. [Ref: Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Walker CJ, Ryan N, Fitzgerald D, Ramsden MF. Online access to MEDLINE in clinical settings. A study of use and usefulness. Ann Intern Med. 1990 Jan 1;112(1):78-84.]

Abstracts may fail to include essential details contained in the full text of the articles referenced.