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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Conflict of Interest

Catalogue

Trust and integrity in biomedical research : the case of financial conflicts of interest / edited by Thomas H. Murray and Josephine Johnston.