Joseph Van Matre

Joseph Van Matre
Professor Emeritus

Professor - Emeritus (P), Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods , Collat School of Business

Overview

Dr. Van Matre is the senior Professor in the Collat School of Business, joining the school when it was formed in 1971. He holds the BSEE and the MBA from Auburn and the PhD in Business Statistics from the University of Alabama. He has held leadership positions in state, regional, and national organizations: President, AL Chapter of the American Statistical Association, President
of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (and recipient of their Distinguished Service Award), Vice-President and Director of the Decision Sciences Institute, and Board Member for the Teachers Retirement System of Alabama. He is especially proud of his teaching awards, three of which he received from the Executive Masters of Health Administration (MHA) classes (this program is ranked second nationally by U. S. News and World Report) and in 2015 he was honored with The Ingalls/Alumni Award, which is presented annually to a full-time regular UAB faculty member who, throughout his/her career at UAB, has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching. Dr. Van Matre was a co-author of five books and numerous journal articles; three journals selected his work as the lead article (The American Statistician, Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, and Business Horizons). In honor of his parents, he established a UAB CSOB Scholarship
fund to help students continue their education.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2019	Principles of Document Design to Improve Business Reports 2019
2016	Dashboards: Useful Management Reporting Tools for Cooperatives 2016
2015	NUMBERS AND NARRATIVE FOR EFFECTIVE ACCOUNTING COMMUNICATIONS 2015
2011	UNDERSTANDING VARIATION 2011
2009	Understanding Healthcare Clinical Process and Outcome Measures and Their Use in the Baldrige Award Application Process. Quality Management Journal. 16:11. 2009
2006	All-or-none measurement of health care quality [4]. Journal of the American Medical Association. 296:392. 2006
2003	HEURISTICS, BIASES, AND IMPROVED DECISION MAKING 2003
2000	TEAMusic: A new exercise for demonstrating teamwork principles.. Quality Management Journal. 7:55-64. 2000
1996	Teamwork and Design of Experiments. Quality Engineering. 9:6. 1996
1995	Analysis of selected variables contributing to successful performance on the registered record administrator certification examination. 1995
1993	The health information professional in hospital quality assurance programs. 1993
1992	The DAT approach to total quality management. Journal of AHIMA / American Health Information Management Association. 63:38-40+42. 1992
1990	Arbitration and the Queen Bee Syndrome 1990
1990	The gospel according to Deming: Is it really new?. Business Horizons. 33:3-9. 1990
1986	An Improved Methodolgy for Closed Account Analysis 1986
1986	Evaluation of Freedom From Smoking Among Alabama Residents. Family and Community Health. 8:36-47. 1986
1985	Deepening the understanding of hospital patient satisfaction: Fulfillment and equity effects. Marketing health services. 5:7-18. 1985
1982	Motor Vehicle Inspection and Accident Mortality: A Rexamination. Journal of Risk and Insurance. XLIX:423-435. 1982
1980	Census Data: A Primer for Business Applications. Journal of Small Business Management. 18:8-17. 1980
1980	Working Papers: Practices And Perceptions Among Schools of Business 1980
1979	REVIEW OF TEACHING MATERIALS ON CENSUS DATA 1979
1979	Review of teaching materials on census data. American Statistician. 33:211-212. 1979
1978	The Ratio Estimate 1978
1976	The statistician as expert witness. American Statistician. 30:2-5. 1976
1975	A Multivariate Analysis of Public Housing Residents: Comment. The Review of Regional Studies. 5:85-87. 1975
1974	A STRATEGY FOR INTEGRATING QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES INTO THE BUSINESS CURRICULUM. Decision Sciences. 5:140-144. 1974
1974	A Strategy for Intergraring Quantitative Methods into the Business Curriculm. Decision Sciences. 5:48-53. 1974
1974	Spinal cord injury-a cost benefit analysis of alternative treatment modals. Spinal Cord. 12:222-231. 1974
1972	A Nomograph for Testing Proportions when Normal Approximations Are Appropriate 1972

Book

Year	Title	Altmetric
1995	Foundations of TQM:A Readings Book 1995
1987	Statistics for Business and Economics, 3rd ed 1987
1983	Statistics for Business and Economics, 2nd ed 1983
1980	CENSUS '80: Continuing the Factfinder Tradition 1980
1980	Statistics for Business and Economics 1980

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2018	WHAT IS CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT?. 3. 2018
2015	Reducing medical errors. 332-350. 2015
2013	CLASSIFICATION AND REDUCTION OF MEDICAL ERRORS. 311-334. 2013
2012	Dawn Meadow Hospital: Selecting Aggregate Quality Measures for the Hospital Board. 15. 2012
2005	THE HUMAN FACE OF MEDICAL EROR: CLASSIFICATION AND REDUCTION. 24. 2005
1995	Control Charts and Process Capability. 97-134. 1995
1990	Use of Census Data in Business. 387-398. 1990
1979	The EDDA and the American Dental Care Delivery System 1979