Scott Flanders

Scott Flanders
Chief Clinical Strategy Officer
Vice Chair, External Relations, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Available to mentor
Scott Flanders
Scott Flanders
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    • Center Member
      Weil Institute for Critical Care Research
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      Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

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    • Journal Article
      Outcomes Associated With Empiric Azithromycin Use Among Patients Hospitalized With Nonsevere Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Emulation of a Target Trial
      Gupta AB, Walzl E, Ratz D, Horowitz JK, McLaughlin E, Pearlman T, Czilok T, Gandhi T, Petty LA, Malani AN, Paje D, Misra P, Kaatz S, Bernstein S, Younas M, Flanders SA, Vaughn VM. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2026 Sep 15; 83 (3): 484 - 492. DOI:10.1093/cid/ciag222
      PMID: 41931457
    • Journal Article
      Electronic Clinical Quality Measures of Antibiotic Use in Hospitalized Adults With Uncomplicated Community-Acquired Pneumonia
      White AT, Bidwell Goetz M, Jones M, Neuhauser MM, Ciarkowski C, Ratz D, Gupta A, Petty LA, Gandhi TN, Zhang M, Kent B, Wu C, Horowitz JK, Flanders SA, Srinivasan A, Vaughn VM. Clinical Infectious Diseases an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2026 Sep 2; 83 (2): e251 - e259. DOI:10.1093/cid/ciag273
      PMID: 42012353
    • Journal Article
      Response
      Prescott HC, Flanders SA, Ryan AM. Chest, 2026 Sep 1; 170 (3): e108 - e109. DOI:10.1016/j.chest.2026.05.025
      PMID: 42716624
    • Journal Article
      Association of Timely Antibiotics and Fluid Resuscitation With Increased Discharge to Home After Sepsis
      Prescott HC, Weinstein J, Seelye S, Buxbaum JD, Bernstein SJ, Cahill M, Heath M, Hsaiky L, Horowitz JK, Jayaprakash N, Malani AN, McLaughlin E, Swaminathan L, Posa PJ, Flanders SA, Ryan AM. Chest, 2026 Aug 1; 170 (2): 410 - 419. DOI:10.1016/j.chest.2026.03.002
      PMID: 41833809
    • Journal Article
      Short Versus Longer Antibiotic Duration for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
      Doumat G, Ratz D, Horowitz JK, Gandhi TN, Petty LA, Malani AN, Osterholzer D, Misra P, Gupta AB, Flanders SA, Vaughn VM. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2026 May 1; 179 (5): 629 - 636. DOI:10.7326/ANNALS-25-03538
      PMID: 41974005
    • Journal Article
      Target Trial Emulation of Empiric Antibiotics on Clinical Outcomes in Moderately Immunocompromised Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia
      Saravolatz L, Gandhi TN, Vaughn VM, Ratz D, Horowitz JK, Gupta A, McLaughlin E, Czilok T, Weinmann A, Paje D, Malani AN, Burdick S, Osterholzer D, Flanders SA, Petty LA. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2026 Apr 1; 82 (4): 648 - 657. DOI:10.1093/cid/ciaf344
      PMID: 40601818
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      728: EVALUATION OF ABCDEF BUNDLE IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING ACROSS MICHIGAN ICUS
      Munroe E, Posa P, Bhanderi H, Czilok T, Dayal L, Esteitie R, Hechtman R, Horowitz J, McLaughlin E, Kakazu M, Tatarcuk C, Walzl E, Viglianti E, Prescott H, Flanders S, Bozyk P. Critical Care Medicine, 2026 Mar 1; 54 (3S): DOI:10.1097/01.ccm.0001184908.46620.3b
    • Journal Article
      749: TIMELY ANTIBIOTICS AND FLUID RESUSCITATION INCREASE DISCHARGE HOME AFTER SEPSIS
      Prescott H, Weinstein J, Bernstein S, Buxbaum J, Cahill M, Heath M, Hsaiky L, Horowitz J, Jayaprakash N, Malani A, McLaughlin E, Swaminathan L, Posa P, Flanders S, Ryan A. Critical Care Medicine, 2026 Mar 1; 54 (3S): DOI:10.1097/01.ccm.0001184992.86703.e6

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