Table 2.

Study Inclusion/exclusion criteria

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Country setting	Present data from a country in the EU or EU in general	Only present data from a non-EU country. No data specific to the EU.
Population	Adults with HZ or PHN	Children
		Focus mainly on chicken pox
		Immunodepressed patients only (e.g. HIV patients)
	Studies that contain information on key search terms (inc. QoL, burden, productivity)	Studies that do NOT contain information on key search terms
Study design	Real world data, observational studies, effectiveness, qualitative research and cost studies	Clinical trials of efficacy and safety of treatments presenting QoL data as secondary endpoint only
		Clinical trials of Zostavax
		Focus mainly on epidemiological evidence (e.g. incidence, prevalence etc.)
Publication type	For conference abstracts, exclusion if manuscript corresponding to this abstract and presenting equivalent information is already published