Clifford Y. Ko

West Los Angeles College — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

113h-index49.0kcitations730works1.42yr avg

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Research Topics

Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes(275), Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments(115), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection(71), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life(71), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research(56)

Publications729 total

Quality improvement efforts driving local change in cancer programs

Surgery·2025

The Role of Palliative Care in New Perioperative DNR Orders: Risk Factors and Timing

Innovation in Aging·2025Open Access

Phrenic Nerve Block for Intractable Hiccups: A Case Series

Cureus·2025Open Access

Association of institutional case volume and children's surgery verification with morbidity/mortality in neonatal duodenal atresia repair: A multi-institutional cohort study

Journal of Pediatric Surgery·2025

Development and evaluation of neighborhood social risk indices for surgery using outcome-specific machine-learning models

Surgery·2025

Development and Testing of a Framework to Support the Planning of Small-Scale Improvement Projects in Surgery: A Multistage Process Including a Modified Delphi Exercise

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025

Building Capacity in Perioperative Quality Improvement in Low‐ and Middle‐ Income Countries: Experiences From Mombasa, Lusaka and Hawassa

1 cited

World Journal of Surgery·2025· 1 citedOpen Access

Identifying Diagnostic Gaps and Mitigation Strategies for Older Adult Emergency General Surgery Patients: A Scoping Review

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025

Declining Use and Shifting Drivers of Concurrent Fundoplication With Pediatric Gastrostomy

Journal of Pediatric Surgery·2025

Development and Evaluation of American College of Surgeons NSQIP Pediatric On-Demand Reporting of Risk-Adjusted and Smoothed Rates

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025

Efficacy of Prophylactic Agents in Preventing Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025Open Access

Postoperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Use and Outcomes in Pectus Excavatum Repair

JAMA Network Open·2025Open Access

Antibiotic Prophylaxis Use and Outcomes in Children Undergoing Laparoscopic Orchiopexy

The Journal of Urology·2025

Discharge to Postacute Care as a Benchmarking Metric for Elderly Surgical Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025

Longitudinal Trends in Efficiency and Complexity of Surgical Procedures: Analysis of 1.7 Million Operations Between 2019 and 2023

1 cited

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025· 1 cited

Assessing process measures and practice variability in pediatric esophageal button battery cases: A multi-institutional cohort study

Journal of Pediatric Surgery·2025

Effect of Centralized Surgical Care on Performance Outcomes Across Multi-hospital Systems

Annals of Surgery·2025

Expanding the ACS Children's Surgery Ecosystem: A Blueprint for the Children's Surgery Collaborative

Journal of Pediatric Surgery·2025

Perception of 30-Day Postoperative Function Compared with Quantified Performance: Factors Affecting Perceived Functional Decline in Patients Aged 80 Years and Older

1 cited

Journal of the American College of Surgeons·2025· 1 cited

Prophylactic Antibiotic use and Outcomes in Infants Undergoing Pyloromyotomy

Annals of Surgery·2025

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Frequent Co-authors

Karl Y. Bilimoria(18), Mark E. Cohen(11), Bruce L. Hall(11), Melinda A. Maggard(9), Andrew K. Stewart(8), David P. Winchester(8), David S. Zingmond(8), Ryan P. Merkow(6), Jerome H. Liu(5), David J. Bentrem(5), Mark S. Talamonti(5), Marcia L. McGory(5), Jessica O’Connell(5), Karen Richards(4), David A. Etzioni(4), David J. Bentrem(4), Yaoming Liu(3), Justin B. Dimick(3), Nelson F. SooHoo(3), James S. Tomlinson(3)