Case Report: Imported Case of Lassa Fever - New Jersey, May 2015.

We report a fatal case of Lassa fever diagnosed in the United States in a Liberian traveler. We describe infection control protocols and public health response. One contact at high risk became symptomatic, but her samples tested negative for Lassa virus; no secondary cases occurred among health care, family, and community contacts.

A systematic review of relocation stress following in-house transfer out of critical/intensive care units.

Objective The objective was to conduct a mixed methods systematic review to determine the occurrence and meaningfulness of relocation stress and the effectiveness of strategies for decreasing transfer anxiety in patients and their families upon transfer from an intensive care unit to a non-intensive care unit and to offer evidence-based recommendations for best practice.Inclusion criteria The review included quantitative and qualitative studies where the participants were adult intensive care patients, family members of adult intensive care patients, intensive care nurses caring for the adult critically ill patient, and ward/unit nurses receiving transfer patients from the ICU (intensive care unit). Studies examining the transfer experience for infants, children or psychiatric patients were excluded from this review.