Everything about Foley

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FoleyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A comprehensive status update on modification of foley catheter to combat catheter-associated urinary tract infections and microbial biofilmsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Mankind, have a nice day!The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis comparing the use of Foley catheters, misoprostol, and dinoprostone for cervical ripening in the induction of labourCited 181 times
5. Go sideways: Foley (surname)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: OwenA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A systematic review and network meta‐analysis comparing the use of Foley catheters, misoprostol, and dinoprostone for cervical ripening in the induction of labour

  W Chen, J Xue, MK Peprah · 2015 · BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · 181 citations

• Foley catheter versus vaginal prostaglandin E2 gel for induction of labour at term (PROBAAT trial): an open-label, randomised controlled trial

  Marta Jozwiak, Katrien Oude Rengerink, Marjan Benthem · 2011 · The Lancet · 180 citations

• A generalized Foley–Sammon transform based on generalized fisher discriminant criterion and its application to face recognition

  Yue-Fei Guo, Shi-Jin Li, Jing-Yu Yang · 2003 · Pattern Recognition Letters · 118 citations

• Cervical Ripening With Transcervical Foley Catheter and the Risk of Uterine Rupture

  Emmanuel Bujold, Sean C. Blackwell, Robert J. Gauthier · 2004 · Obstetrics & Gynecology · 114 citations

• Complications of Foley Catheters—Is Infection the Greatest Risk?

  Anne-Marie Leuck, Deborah Wright, LeAnn Ellingson · 2012 · Journal of Urology · 110 citations

• Induction of labour at term with oral misoprostol versus a Foley catheter (PROBAAT-II): a multicentre randomised controlled non-inferiority trial

  Mieke L G ten Eikelder, Katrien Oude Rengerink, Marta Jozwiak · 2016 · The Lancet · 110 citations

• The migration of Proteus mirabilis and other urinary tract pathogens over Foley catheters

  N. Sabbuba, G. Hughes, D.J. Stickler · 2002 · BJU International · 95 citations

• AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR FOLEY–SAMMON OPTIMAL SET OF DISCRIMINANT VECTORS BY ALGEBRAIC METHOD

  KE LIU, YONG-QING CHENG, JING-YU YANG · 1992 · International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence · 92 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A comprehensive status update on modification of foley catheter to combat catheter-associated urinary tract infections and microbial biofilms

  Jatin Chadha, Navdisha Thakur, Sanjay Chhibber · 2023 · Critical Reviews in Microbiology · 26 citations

• Early vs expectant artificial rupture of membranes following Foley catheter ripening: a randomized controlled trial

  Helen B. Gomez Slagle, Yaneve N. Fonge, Richard Caplan · 2022 · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 24 citations

• Silicone Foley catheters impregnated with microbial indole derivatives inhibit crystalline biofilm formation by Proteus mirabilis

  Mai A. Amer, Mohamed A. Ramadan, Ahmed S. Attia · 2022 · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · 19 citations

• The effectiveness of high-fidelity simulation methods to gain Foley catheterization knowledge, skills, satisfaction and self-confidence among novice nursing students: A randomized controlled trial

  Nur Guven Ozdemir, Hatice Kaya · 2023 · Nurse Education Today · 18 citations

• Six compared with 12 hours of Foley balloon placement for labor induction in nulliparous women with unripe cervices: a randomized controlled trial

  Umadevi Appadurai, Farah Gan, Jesrine Hong · 2023 · American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Mankind, have a nice day!Mick Foley, Mankind · 1999
• The sound effects bibleRic Viers · 2008
• Have a nice day!Mick Foley · 2000
• No show of remorseDavid J. Walker · 2002
• 📕A venture in retailingLevine, Max · 1969
• Saint MickMick Foley · 2017
• FoleysLasker Meyer · 2011
• 📕No Show of RemorseDavid J. Walker · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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