Mary Barger, RN, PhD, CNM
Professor Emeritus
Family Health Care Nursing
School of Nursing

Publications (68)

Top publication keywords:
Pregnancy OutcomeWomen's HealthEvidence-Based PracticeUterine RuptureVaginal Birth after CesareanPregnancy ComplicationsPerinatal CareGalactogoguesNurse MidwivesMaternal Health ServicesCesarean SectionPregnancyObstetric Labor ComplicationsPrenatal CareMidwifery

• Feasibility of Telehealth and Innovative Technologies to Limit Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.
  Nursing for women's health 2023 Mattson R, Barger MK
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, July/August 2023.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2023 Harris NAR, Howe-Heyman A, Barger MK
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, May/June 2023.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2023 Barger MK, Howe-Heyman A, Harris NR
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, March/April 2023.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2023 Barger MK, Howe-Heyman A
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, January/February 2023.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2023 Barger MK

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• An integrative literature review on the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in Africa.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2023 Senkyire EK, Ewetan O, Azuh D, Asiedua E, White R, Dunlea M, Barger M, Ohaja M
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, July/August 2022.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2022 Barger MK
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, May/June 2022.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2022 Barger MK
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, March/April 2022.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2022 Barger MK
• Systematic Reviews to Inform Practice, January/February 2022.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2022 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, November/December 2021.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, September/October 2021.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Barger MK
• Impaired Lactation: Review of Delayed Lactogenesis and Insufficient Lactation.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Farah E, Barger MK, Klima C, Rossman B, Hershberger P
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, July/August 2021.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Barger MK
• Rural Residence and Factors Associated with Attendance at the Second High-Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic Visit for Very Low Birth Weight Infants in California.
  American journal of perinatology 2021 Fuller MG, Lu T, Gray EE, Jocson MAL, Barger MK, Bennett M, Lee HC, Hintz SR
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, May/June 2021.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Barger MK
• Breastfeeding and Childhood IQ Scores: Association or Causation.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2021 King TL, Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, March/April 2021.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Barger MK
• Bridging the Chasm between Pregnancy and Health over the Life Course: A National Agenda for Research and Action.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2021 McCloskey L, Bernstein J, Amutah-Onukagha N, Anthony J, Barger M, Belanoff C, Bennett T, Bird CE, Bolds D, Brenna BW, Carter R, Celi A, Chachere B, Crear-Perry J, Crossno C, Cruz-Davis A, Damus K, …
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, January/February 2021.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2021 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, September/October 2020.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2020 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, July/August 2020.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2020 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, May/June 2020.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2020 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, March/April 2020.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2020 Barger MK
• Oxidative Stress Biomarker Decreased in Preterm Neonates Treated With Kangaroo Mother Care.
  Biological research for nursing 2020 Forde D, Deming DD, Tan JC, Phillips RM, Fry-Bowers EK, Barger MK, Bahjri K, Angeles DM, Boskovic DS
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, January/February 2020.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2020 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, November/December 2019.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2019 Barger MK
• Knowledge and use of the ICM global standards for midwifery education.
  Midwifery 2019 Barger MK, Hackley B, Bharj KK, Luyben A, Thompson JB
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, September/October 2019.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2019 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, July/August 2019.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2019 Barger MK
• In Reply.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2019 Barger M
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, May/June, 2019.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2019 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, March/April, 2019.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2019 Barger MK
• Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, January/February 2019.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2018 Barger MK
• When Does the Odds Ratio Not Equal the Relative Risk, and Why Should You Care?
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2018 Barger MK
• What is next? Midwifery education building partnerships for tomorrow's maternal and neonatal health care.
  Midwifery 2018 Luyben A, Barger MK, Avery MD, Bick D
• Implementation of a programme to develop research projects in a school of midwifery in Santiago, Chile.
  Midwifery 2018 Bonilla H, Ortiz-Llorens M, Barger MK, Rodríguez C, Cabrera M
• Exploring global recognition of quality midwifery education: Vision or fiction?
  Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives 2017 Luyben A, Barger M, Avery M, Bharj KK, O'Connell R, Fleming V, Thompson J, Sherratt D
• Mantram Repetition With Homeless Women: A Pilot Study.
  Holistic nursing practice 2016 Weinrich SP, Bormann JE, Glaser D, Hardin S, Barger M, Lizarraga C, Del Rio J, Allard CB
• Utilizing Task Shifting to Increase Access to Maternal and Infant Health Interventions: A Case Study of Midwives for Haiti.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2016 Barger M, Johnson P, Avery M
• An agenda for midwifery education: Advancing the state of the world׳s midwifery.
  Midwifery 2016 Bharj KK, Luyben A, Avery MD, Johnson PG, O'Connell R, Barger MK, Bick D
• Assessing sexual trauma histories in homeless women.
  Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) 2016 Weinrich S, Hardin S, Glaser D, Barger M, Bormann J, Lizarraga C, Terry M, Criscenzo J, Allard CB
• Mantram Repetition Program Decreases Insomnia Among Homeless Women: A Pilot Study.
  Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services 2015 Barger MK, Weinrich S, Bormann JE, Bouvier M, Hardin SB
• Midwives as primary care providers for women.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2015 Phillippi JC, Barger MK
• Part III: Research on Intrapartum and Neonatal Care and Management.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2015 Barger M, Faucher MA, Murphy PA
• Gestational weight gain in obese women by class of obesity and select maternal/newborn outcomes: A systematic review.
  Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives 2015 Faucher MA, Barger MK
• Part II: the centering pregnancy model of group prenatal care.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2015 Barger M, Faucher MA, Murphy PA
• Honoring U.S. midwife researchers. Part I: theorists and historical influences.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2015 Barger M, Faucher MA, Murphy PA
• Vaginal birth after cesarean in German out-of-hospital settings: maternal and neonatal outcomes of women with their second child.
  Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) 2014 Beckmann L, Barger M, Dorin L, Metzing S, Hellmers C
• A midwifery-led in-hospital birth center within an academic medical center: successes and challenges.
  The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing 2013 Perdion K, Lesser R, Hirsch J, Barger M, Kelly TF, Moore TR, Lacoursiere DY
• A survey of access to trial of labor in California hospitals in 2012.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2013 Barger MK, Dunn JT, Bearman S, DeLain M, Gates E
• Maternal and newborn outcomes following uterine rupture among women without versus those with a prior cesarean.
  The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians 2012 Barger MK, Nannini A, DeJoy S, Wisner K, Markenson G
• Rates of hospital visits for assault during pregnancy and the year postpartum: timing matters.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2011 Nannini A, Lazar J, Berg C, Barger M, Tomashek K, Cabral H, Barfield W, Kotelchuck M
• Risk factors for uterine rupture among women who attempt a vaginal birth after a previous cesarean: a case-control study.
  The Journal of reproductive medicine 2011 Barger MK, Weiss J, Nannini A, Werler M, Heeren T, Stubblefield PG
• Making time for nutrition counseling.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2010 Barger MK
• Maternal nutrition and perinatal outcomes.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2010 Barger MK
• Specialized care for women pregnant after bariatric surgery.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2010 Harris AA, Barger MK
• The past, present, and future of assessing continuing competency for midwives.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2009 Barger M, Camune B, Graves B, Lamberto J
• Physical injuries reported on hospital visits for assault during the pregnancy-associated period.
  Nursing research 2008 Nannini A, Lazar J, Berg C, Barger M, Tomashek K, Cabral H, Barfield W, Kotelchuck M
• Injury: a major cause of pregnancy-associated morbidity in Massachusetts.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2008 Nannini A, Lazar J, Berg C, Tomashek K, Cabral H, Barger M, Barfield W, Kotelchuck M
• Poverty and health.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2007 Barger MK
• Maternal outcomes associated with planned primary cesarean births compared with planned vaginal births.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2007 Declercq E, Barger M, Cabral HJ, Evans SR, Kotelchuck M, Simon C, Weiss J, Heffner LJ
• Caring for a woman at high risk for type 2 diabetes.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2006 Barger MK, Bidgood-Wilson M
• Identifying multiple gestation groups using state-level birth and fetal death certificate data.
  Maternal and child health journal 2005 Lazar J, Kotelchuck M, Nannini A, Barger M
• Midwifery practice: Where have we been and where are we going?
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2005 Barger MK
• The profession of midwifery in the United States: Looking back and looking forward.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2005 King TL, Barger MK
• What do you do when the baby is winking at you? Case report of a face presentation.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2002 Barger MK
• Uterine rupture among women with a prior cesarean delivery.
  The New England journal of medicine 2002 Declercq E, Barger M, O'Grady JP