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American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias logoLink to American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
. 2020 Oct 30;35:1533317520970722. doi: 10.1177/1533317520970722

Erratum on Practicality Assessment of the Improved ICT-based Dementia Care Mapping Support System

PMCID: PMC10623929  PMID: 33124431

Yamamoto, H, Yokokohji, Y, Ishihara, T. Practicality Assessment of the Improved ICT-based Dementia Care Mapping Support System. Am. J. Alzheimer’s Dis. Other Dement. 2020;35:1-14. doi: 10.1177/1533317520935716

Table 1 has been revised. The changes do not disclose any error in the data and are only textual. They have been highlighted bold.

Table 1.

Characteristics of Subjects, Participants, and Sites.

Demographic Characteristic n (%)
(a) Subjects 8
Gender Male 6 (75)
Female 2 (25)
Age 30s 1 (12.5)
40s 3 (37.5)
50s 4 (50)
Role Care Profession 3 (37.5)
Management 2 (25)
Doctor 1 (12.5)
Training and Education 2 (25)
Level of DCM Training Basic User 2 (25)
Advanced User 5 (62.5)
Higher Level User 1 (12.5)
Computer Literacy High 2 (25)
Normal 2 (25)
Poor 3 (37.5)
Illiterate 1 (12.5)
(b) Participants 15
Gender Male 3 (20)
Female 12 (80)
Age 60s 1 (6.7)
70s 3 (20)
80s 8 (53.3)
90s 3 (20)
(c) Sites 3
Type Nursing Home 2 (66.7)
Day Center 1 (33.3)

A few entries in Table 4 have been modified, they do not change or influence the data or the result in any way.

Table 4.

Concordance Rates per Participant in Case 2 Mapping.

Mapper Pair and Map Category Concordance Rate per Participant
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Total
M12-M22
Prep Map
(1 hour)
Relevant time frames 24 24 24 24 24 120
Concordance rate: CR0 (%) 67 21 71 58 75 58
Prime Map
(5 hours)
Relevant time frames 114 106 116 116 116 568
Concordance rate: CR (%) 82 50 67 66 65 66
M12-M32
Prep Map
(1 hour)
Relevant time frames 24 24 24 24 24 120
Concordance rate: CR0 (%) 71 54 88 67 83 73
Prime Map
(5 hours)
Relevant time frames 114 106 116 106 116 558
Concordance rate: CR (%) 76 61 75 77 60 70
M22-M32
Prep Map
(1 hour)
Relevant time frames 24 24 24 24 24 120
Concordance rate: CR0 (%) 75 25 83 79 75 68
Prime Map
(5 hours)
Relevant time frames 120 112 120 108 120 580
Concordance rate: CR (%) 81 65 74 69 74 73

The following sentence on page 12 should be considered as the 5th bullet point as one of the responses received of open question regarding the usefulness of the support system:

It would be nice if I could compare coding with other mapper easily after mapping; for example, only the time frames with coding disagreements would be displayed automatically.


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