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Conflict of Interest

"Conflict of Interest" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A situation in which an individual might benefit personally from official or professional actions. It includes a conflict between a person's private interests and official responsibilities in a position of trust. The term is not restricted to government officials. The concept refers both to actual conflict of interest and the appearance or perception of conflict.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Conflict of Interest" by people in this website by year, and whether "Conflict of Interest" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2018
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