"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.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D016265
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.752.566.479.095 N05.350.225
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Conflict of Interest".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Conflict of Interest".
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.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Conflict of Interest" by people in Profiles.
-
The Influence of Conflicts of Interest on Outcomes in the Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty Literature: A Systematic Review. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019 Aug 15; 44(16):1162-1169.
-
Team Physician, Team Subspecialist: A Potential Scientific Conflict of Interest? Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2019 03; 51(3):393-394.
-
Clarification of errors in Abbas et al.'s conflict of interest narrative review. Intensive Care Med. 2019 01; 45(1):128-129.
-
Conflict of Interest and the Journal Revisited. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 02; 57(2):72-73.
-
Cervical disc arthroplasty: do conflicts of interest influence the outcome of clinical studies? Spine J. 2017 07; 17(7):1026-1032.
-
Inconsistencies Between Physician-Reported Disclosures at the AAOS Annual Meeting and Industry-Reported Financial Disclosures in the Open Payments Database. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2016 Oct 19; 98(20):e90.
-
Are Financial Conflicts of Interest for the Surgeon A Source of Concern for the Patient? J Arthroplasty. 2015 Sep; 30(9 Suppl):21-33.
-
Publication and level of evidence trends in the American Journal of Sports Medicine from 1996 to 2011. Am J Sports Med. 2015 Jan; 43(1):220-5.
-
Conflict of interest in online point-of-care clinical support websites. J Med Ethics. 2014 Aug; 40(8):578-80.
-
The relationship between industry and surgery. J Hand Surg Am. 2011 Aug; 36(8):1352-9.