| ACA | Affordable Care Act |
| ACIP | Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices |
| AE | Adverse effect |
| AEFI | Adverse effect following immunization |
| ASCO | American Society of Clinical Oncology |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus disease 2019 |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| HSCT | Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation |
| HZ | Herpes zoster |
| HZO | Herpes zoster ophthalmicus |
| IC | Immunocompromised |
| JCVI | Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation |
| IR | Incidence rate |
| MPL | 3-O-desacyl-4′-monophosphoryl lipid A |
| Non-IC | Non-immunocompromised |
| PHN | Postherpetic neuralgia |
| PY | Person-years |
| RZV | Recombinant zoster vaccine |
| TLR4 | Toll-like receptor type 4 |
| VAERS | Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System |
| VE | Vaccine effectiveness |
| VZV | Varicella–zoster virus |
| ZVL | Zoster vaccine live |