Measuring protection

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Measuring protection: efficacy versus effectiveness. An efficacy study in a vaccine's clinical development asks, "Does the vaccine work?"

In contrast, an effectiveness study, usually retrospectively as a case-control or cohort study, asks the question "Does vaccination help people?". 

Ref: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9855432
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