Josep Maria Haro, Director
Saint John of God Research and Teaching Foundation

Josep Maria Haro is Director of the Saint John of God Research and Teaching Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, which promotes and manages the research of two hospitals, the pediatric Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and the San Joan de Déu-Serveis de Salut Mental, which specializes in treatment of mental health issues. He earned an MD from the University of Barcelona, a Master's in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from University Autonoma in Barcelona. A SAS user since 1990, Dr. Haro is widely published and is a member of International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology, the European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Schizophrenia International Research Society, and the Catalan Psychiatric Society (SCP).

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Real World Health Care Data Analysis: Causal Methods and Implementation Using SAS®

Real world health care data from observational studies, pragmatic trials, patient registries, and databases is common and growing in use. Real World Health Care Data Analysis: Causal Methods and Implementation in SAS® brings together best practices for causal-based comparative effectiveness analyses based on real world data in a single location. Example SAS code is provided to make the analyses relatively easy and efficient.

The book also presents several emerging topics of interest, including algorithms for personalized medicine, methods that address the complexities of time varying confounding, extensions of propensity scoring to comparisons between more than two interventions, sensitivity analyses for unmeasured confounding, and implementation of model averaging.