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Overview

Clifford Y. Ko is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their work spans several fields related to medicine, including health professions, orthopedics and sports medicine, surgery, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The main fields of study for Clifford Y. Ko encompass Medicine and Health Professions. Within these broader domains, their research covers a variety of subfields such as General Health Professions, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Topics frequently addressed by Ko include Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues, Health, Medicine and Society, Foot and Ankle Surgery, Tendon Structure and Treatment, Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management.

Ko has authored several recent papers, demonstrating a focus on clinical and surgical aspects of health care, particularly among older adults and in foot and ankle surgery. The recent publications are:

  • Perioperative Pain Management Issues Unique to Older Adults Undergoing Surgery: A Narrative Review, 2021, PubMed
  • The Effect of Frontal Deformity at the Ankle Joint on Total Ankle Arthroplasty Revision Rate, 2023, The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery
  • An Algorithm for Evaluation and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers, 2021, Diabetes & its Complications
  • Table of Contents, 2023, Gastroenterology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Clifford Y. Ko include William D. Chey, Adam D. Shellito, Jill Q. Dworsky, Patrick Kirkland, and Ronnie A. Rosenthal.

Publication venues associated with Ko's work cover several journals with relevant medical and surgical scopes. These venues are PubMed, The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery, Diabetes & its Complications, and Gastroenterology.

Best Publications

  • Colon Cancer Survival Rates With the New American Joint Committee on Cancer Sixth Edition Staging

    Jessica B. O'Connell;Melinda A. Maggard;Clifford Y. Ko

  • Development and Evaluation of the Universal ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator: A Decision Aid and Informed Consent Tool for Patients and Surgeons

    Karl Y. Bilimoria;Yaoming Liu;Jennifer L. Paruch;Lynn Zhou

  • The National Cancer Data Base: A Powerful Initiative to Improve Cancer Care in the United States

    Karl Y. Bilimoria;Andrew K. Stewart;David P. Winchester;Clifford Y. Ko

  • Toward Robust Information: Data Quality and Inter-Rater Reliability in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

    Mira Shiloach;Stanley K. Frencher;Janet E. Steeger;Katherine S. Rowell

  • The aging population and its impact on the surgery workforce.

    David A. Etzioni;Jerome H. Liu;Melinda A. Maggard;Clifford Y. Ko

  • Optimal Preoperative Assessment of the Geriatric Surgical Patient: A Best Practices Guideline From the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the American Geriatrics Society

    Warren B. Chow;Ronnie A. Rosenthal;Ryan P. Merkow;Clifford Y. Ko

  • American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update

    Kristen A. Ban;Kristen A. Ban;Joseph P. Minei;Christine Laronga;Brian G. Harbrecht

  • Extent of surgery affects survival for papillary thyroid cancer.

    Karl Y. Bilimoria;David J. Bentrem;Clifford Y. Ko;Clifford Y. Ko;Andrew K. Stewart

  • First Report from the American College of Surgeons -- Bariatric Surgery Center Network: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy has Morbidity and Effectiveness Positioned Between the Band and the Bypass

    Matthew M. Hutter;Bruce D. Schirmer;Daniel B. Jones;Clifford Y. Ko

  • Does surgical quality improve in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: an evaluation of all participating hospitals.

    Bruce L. Hall;Barton H. Hamilton;Karen Richards;Karl Y. Bilimoria

  • Small bowel cancer in the United States: changes in epidemiology, treatment, and survival over the last 20 years.

    Karl Y Bilimoria;David Jason Bentrem;Jeffrey D Wayne;Clifford Y. Ko;Clifford Y. Ko

  • Underlying Reasons Associated With Hospital Readmission Following Surgery in the United States

    Ryan P. Merkow;Mila H. Ju;Mila H. Ju;Jeanette W. Chung;Bruce L. Hall

  • Updated population-based review of carcinoid tumors.

    Melinda A Maggard;Jessica B O'Connell;Clifford Y Ko

  • Quality improvement in surgery: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program approach.

    Angela M. Ingraham;Karen E. Richards;Bruce L. Hall;Bruce L. Hall;Clifford Y. Ko;Clifford Y. Ko

  • Preoperative Predictors of Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery: Systematic Review

    Masha Livhits;Cheryl Mercado;Irina Yermilov;Janak A. Parikh

  • National Failure to Operate on Early Stage Pancreatic Cancer

    Karl Y. Bilimoria;David J. Bentrem;Clifford Y. Ko;Clifford Y. Ko;Andrew K. Stewart

  • Optimizing ACS NSQIP Modeling for Evaluation of Surgical Quality and Risk: Patient Risk Adjustment, Procedure Mix Adjustment, Shrinkage Adjustment, and Surgical Focus

    Mark E. Cohen;Clifford Y. Ko;Clifford Y. Ko;Karl Y. Bilimoria;Karl Y. Bilimoria;Lynn Zhou

  • Optimal Perioperative Management of the Geriatric Patient: A Best Practices Guideline from the American College of Surgeons NSQIP and the American Geriatrics Society

    Sanjay Mohanty;Sanjay Mohanty;Ronnie A. Rosenthal;Marcia M. Russell;Mark D. Neuman

  • Complication Rates Following Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Ankle Fractures

    Nelson F. SooHoo;Lucie Krenek;Michael J. Eagan;Barkha N. Gurbani

  • Validation of the 6th edition AJCC Pancreatic Cancer Staging System: report from the National Cancer Database.

    Karl Y Bilimoria;Karl Y Bilimoria;David Jason Bentrem;Clifford Y. Ko;Clifford Y. Ko;Jamie Ritchey

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Y. Bilimoria
Karl Y. Bilimoria Indiana University
David J. Bentrem
David J. Bentrem Northwestern University
David P. Winchester
David P. Winchester American College of Surgeons
Mark S. Talamonti
Mark S. Talamonti NorthShore University HealthSystem
Patricia A. Ganz
Patricia A. Ganz University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine L. Kahn
Katherine L. Kahn University of California, Los Angeles
Robert H. Brook
Robert H. Brook RAND Corporation
Justin B. Dimick
Justin B. Dimick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David B. Hoyt
David B. Hoyt American College of Surgeons
Paul G. Shekelle
Paul G. Shekelle RAND Corporation

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