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Item The Indian art project at UNC-CH: increasing accessibility and decreasing marginality of indigenous people’s art(2022-05-03) Levinson, SaraDiscusses the project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in which books dealing with the art of the indigenous peoples of the Americas were reclassed and enhanced. This was done to provide greater access to the materials and to integrate the indgenous art into the other materials located at the Art Library on campus.Item Patient perspectives on variant reclassification after cancer susceptibility testing(Wiley, 2020-04-24) Halverson, Colin M. E.; Connors, Laurie M.; Wessinger, Bronson C.; Clayton, Ellen W.; Wiesner, Georgia L.; Medicine, School of MedicineBackground Little is known about the impact of reclassification on patients’ perception of medical uncertainty or trust in genetics‐based clinical care. Methods Semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with 20 patients who had received a reclassified genetic test result related to hereditary cancer. All participants had undergone genetic counseling and testing for cancer susceptibility at Vanderbilt‐Ingram Cancer Center Hereditary Cancer Clinic within the last six years. Results Most of the participants did not express distress related to the variant reclassification and only a minority expressed a decrease in trust in medical genetics. However, recall of the new interpretation was limited, even though all participants were recontacted by letter, phone, or clinic visit. Conclusion Reclassification of genetic tests is an important issue in modern healthcare because changes in interpretation have the potential to alter previously recommended management. Participants in this study did not express strong feelings of mistrust or doubt about their genetic evaluation. However, there was a low level of comprehension and information retention related to the updated report. Future research can build on this study to improve communication with patients about their reclassified results.