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OvidSP's Find Similar feature allows a quick compilation of a list of records similar in content to a specific record of interest in your Record Titles Display (or Complete Reference Display).
 In the titles display of a multifile session, Find Similar is disabled if any database of the multifile does not support this functionality.

Click a record's Find Similar button to search for other records in the database which contain related words and synonymous in their titles and presents them in a new titles display when you

 OvidSP's Find Similar references a lexicon drawn from the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Meta-thesaurus, medical dictionaries and thesauri, medical acronyms, drug and disease names, and standard American and British English dictionaries.
 If no records match your find similar request, OvidSP displays a message:


OvidSP posts Find Similar results back in the search history. Click the Main Search Page link to see

Find Similar allows you continue developing search strategies even while reviewing actual records in a Search Results Display or a Complete Reference Page.

Contact your site administrator to enable Find Similar in your account.

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