Ovid Tutorial 2.0
 University of South Alabama Biomedical Libraries

Focus:

Restricting to Focus will limit your search to those citations in which the subject heading is considered the focus, or major point of the article.

Sample retrieval with and without Focus:

Note: The "*" before the subject heading indicates Focus.
# Search History Results Display
1 Interferons/ 1225 Display
2 *Interferons/ 668 Display

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