TABLE 2.
Design | Exposure | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|
Traditional case-control | Case | Control | |
Vaccinated | |||
Unvaccinated | |||
Test-negative design | |||
Test positive | Test negative | ||
Vaccinated | |||
Unvaccinated |
Contents of the table are probabilities of the various listed outcomes, accounting for vaccinated or unvaccinated status. Parameters: , proportion of the population vaccinated; , risk of the outcome of interest; , risk of the negative-control outcome; , relative risk of the outcome of interest, given vaccination (see Table 1).