IMAGINE Toolkit: Debunking 8 myths about urinary tract infections in nursing home residents

by Imagine | May 28, 2025 | Noticias

As part of our mission to improve antibiotic prescribing and reduce inappropriate use in long-term care settings, The IMAGINE Project offers a valuable resource on its website: “8 Myths About Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in Nursing Home Residents.” This toolkit...

Jesper Lykkegaard: “Thanks to the audit we conducted, we have seen a 40% reduction in inappropriate treatments.”

by Imagine | May 14, 2025 | Noticias

This is one of the achievements of the methodology applied by the IMAGINE Project: the audit method which have led people to change their habits on their own, without third-party interests, achieving a 40% reduction in the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics for...

Tina Marloth: “Making them critical of their own practice can lead to improvement.”

by Imagine | May 7, 2025 | Noticias

This is how emphatic Tina Marloth, Infection control nurse MMS del Herlev of Gentofte Hospital (Denmark), was when asked about the impact of the IPC audit on improving infection prevention during the meeting in Lithuania on November 28 and 29. To create the most...

Anne Marie Theut: “We wanted to ensure that the tools we developed are useful”

by Imagine | Apr 30, 2025 | Noticias

During the latest meeting of the IMAGINE Project members in Lithuania, Marie Theut, PhD Student, Medical Doctor, Herlev og Gentofte Hospital (Denmark), explained how the development of the initiative’s tools has been. Specifically, Theut explained that the...

Jette Nygaard: “The best way to develop and implement the tools is to collaborate with the nursing home staff”

by Imagine | Apr 16, 2025 | Noticias

During the meeting last November in Lithuania, Jette Nygaard, senior researcher at the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, shared her assessment of the process that Imagine Project has carried out in nursing homes. Nygaard explained...

Imagine Project: a step forward in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

by Imagine | Apr 7, 2025 | Noticias

On World Health Day, Imagine Project highlights the importance of raising awareness about the use of antimicrobials to improve infection management in nursing homes across Europe.  On World Health Day, Imagine Project aims to focus on the need to raise awareness about...