The psychosocial experience of traumatic birth in couples: an interpretative phenomenological study.

Background: One-third of women report a psychologically traumatic event during birth; limited research exists on how couples experience and process self-reported traumatic birth.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed to examine the lived experience and psychosocial impact of traumatic birth in couples.

Methods: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore in-depth participants' lived experience during and after traumatic childbirth.

Predictors of hospital surface contamination with Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: patient and organism factors.

Background: The role of the hospital environment in transmission of ESBL-Klebsiella pneumoniae (ESBL-KP) and ESBL-Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) is poorly defined. Recent data however suggest that in the hospital setting, ESBL-KP is more transmissible than ESBL-EC. We sought therefore to measure the difference in hospital contamination rates between the two species and to identify key risk factors for contamination of the hospital environment with these organisms.