TRIBUNNEWSMAKER.COM – The terms efficacy and effectiveness have become familiar during a pandemic Covid-19.
The two are often associated with vaccine, namely as a determinant of quality vaccine.
Head of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology (LBM) Prof. Amin Subandrio said that the two terms are often considered the same, although in fact they are somewhat different.
“The current term varies slightly between efficacy and effectiveness,” he said some time ago, as quoted by TribunNewsmaker.com from TribunnewsBogor.com entitled: This is Different from Efficacy and Effectiveness, Determinants of Vaccine Quality
Amin explained that efficacy is a measurement result obtained after clinical trials, where the numbers are obtained from the results of clinical trials.
“In all controlled clinical trials, starting subjects, vaccine who injects under control, all under controlled conditions. So that the expected conditions are ideal, “he explained.
Meanwhile, effectiveness is measured after the vaccine is marketed or given to the public, meaning that all subjects and conditions are no longer ideal.
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“Our subjects do not know, are not registered, conditions vaccine also not necessarily stable because of the distribution channel. So the effectiveness is obtained from when doing vaccineasi, “said Amin
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“So that’s the difference between efficacy and effectiveness,” he added.
He stressed, though vaccine have completed clinical trials and given to the community, monitoring of quality and safety is carried out periodically.
(Tribunnews / Rina Ayu)
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