Karim F Hirji

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Publications

  1. ncbi No short-cut in assessing trial quality: a case study
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P O Box 65015, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trials 10:1. 2009
  2. ncbi Outcome based subgroup analysis: a neglected concern
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trials 10:33. 2009
  3. ncbi Pre-referral rectal artesunate in severe malaria: flawed trial
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trials 12:188. 2011
  4. ncbi Calculating unreported confidence intervals for paired data
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    BMC Med Res Methodol 11:66. 2011

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Publications4

  1. ncbi No short-cut in assessing trial quality: a case study
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P O Box 65015, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trials 10:1. 2009
    ..Using a trial of antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media, Burke et al., BMJ, 1991, as the case study, this paper illustrates some limitations of the check-list approach to trial quality assessment...
  2. ncbi Outcome based subgroup analysis: a neglected concern
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trials 10:33. 2009
    ..This paper highlights some of the distinct ways in which outcome based subgroup analysis occurs, describes the hazards associated with it, and proposes a simple alternative approach to counter its analytic bias...
  3. ncbi Pre-referral rectal artesunate in severe malaria: flawed trial
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trials 12:188. 2011
    ....
  4. ncbi Calculating unreported confidence intervals for paired data
    Karim F Hirji
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    BMC Med Res Methodol 11:66. 2011
    ..Since the descriptive statistics for such studies are usually presented in the same way as for unpaired designs, direct computation of the standard error is not possible without additional information...