Scholars@Duke
Yanran Yang

Yanran Yang

Assistant Professor of Sustainability Studies at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications

Reliability and validity study of the "5Cs" hesitancy scale for maternal influenza vaccination among pregnant and postpartum women.

Journal Article Infectious diseases of poverty · April 2025 BackgroundMaternal influenza vaccine hesitancy plays a vital role in the low rates of vaccination. However, instruments to appropriately assess perinatal influenza vaccine hesitancy are unavailable. This study aimed to develop the Maternal Influen ... Full text Cite

Achieving Goals of Care Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: A Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study.

Journal Article Chest · July 2024 BackgroundPhysicians, patients, and families alike perceive a need to improve how goals of care (GOC) decisions occur in chronic critical illness (CCI), but little is currently known about this decision-making process.Research questionHow ... Full text Cite

Clinicians' approach to predicting post-cardiac arrest outcomes for patients enrolled in a United States clinical trial.

Journal Article Resuscitation · June 2024 PurposePerceived poor prognosis can lead to withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies (WLST) in patients who might otherwise recover. We characterized clinicians' approach to post-arrest prognostication in a multicenter clinical trial.Methods Full text Cite

Communicating health information with visual displays.

Journal Article Nature medicine · May 2023 Well-designed visual displays have the power to convey health messages in clear, effective ways to non-experts, including journalists, patients and policymakers. Poorly designed visual displays, however, can confuse and alienate recipients, undermining hea ... Full text Cite

Visual displays for communicating scientific uncertainty in influenza forecasts

Journal Article Frontiers in Communication · January 1, 2023 We offer a general method for testing the usability of visual displays communicating scientific uncertainty, illustrated with publicly available results from CDC's influenza forecasts. The heavy toll of seasonal influenza has prompted major investments in ... Full text Cite

A Procedure for Eliciting Women's Preferences for Breast Cancer Screening Frequency.

Journal Article Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · August 2022 BackgroundWe evaluate the construct validity of a proposed procedure for eliciting lay preferences among health care policy options, suited for structured surveys. It is illustrated with breast cancer screening, a domain in which people may have h ... Full text Cite

How stable are preferences among emerging electricity generation technologies

Journal Article Environmental Research Communications · January 1, 2019 Coal-fired power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), natural-gas-fired power plants with CCS, and Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are potentially important emerging energy technologies that could help mitigate climate change and contribute to ... Full text Cite