Item PEEM (total n=168) REEM (total n=89) (total n=62)
  n Score 2-4 Corr item vs. mean n Score 2-4 Corr item vs. mean Corr PEEM vs. REEM
1. Do you forget where you have put something? Losing things around the house 165 71% 0.78 83 66% 0.66 0.46
2. Do you find you can’t quite remember something although it’s “on the tip of your tongue”? 166 65% 0.72 87 56% 0.61 0.56
3. Do you forget something you were told yesterday or a few days ago and have to be remembered? 167 71% 0.78 89 70% 0.71 0.34
4. Do you forget what you have just said.unable to “pick up the thread again”? 166 50% 0.76 86 35% 0.74 0.44
5. Do you forget when something happened.e.g. if it was yesterday or last week? 167 62% 0.69 88 58% 0.80 0.52
6. Do you forget to tell somebody something important? Perhaps forgetting to tell someone that some person has phoned? 165 49% 0.68 86 65% 0.71 0.44
7. Do you forget the names of friends or relatives or call them by the wrong names? 167 24% 0.63 88 14% 0.60 0.60
8. Do you have to go around checking whether you have done everything you meant to do? 165 64% 0.78 78 49% 0.77 0.68
9. Do you forget what the sentence you have just read was about and have to read it again? 165 61% 0.75 63 48% 0.78 0.50
10. Do you find you forget why you went from one part of the house to the other, and what you are supposed to do there? 165 49% 0.74 82 29% 0.80 0.50
11. Do you forget the names of common things? 166 27% 0.64 88 22% 0.64 0.32
12. Do you mix-up what different persons have been telling you? 161 42% 0.77 81 40% 0.78 0.27
13. Do you find it difficult to find the way in places you have often been to? 165 14% 0.66 88 8% 0.58 0.35
14. Do you leave important letters unanswered or forget to pay bills? 158 24% 0.64 76 20% 0.68 0.16
15. Do you forget to keep an appointment or agreement? 163 24% 0.69 82 22% 0.74 0.34
16. Do you forget to do things which you have promised or planned to do? 164 39% 0.76 84 43% 0.75 0.50
17. Do you have to write notes in order to remember? 163 80% 0.62 71 70% 0.65 0.59
18. Do other persons remind you that you are forgetting things? 157 46% 0.61 83 29% 0.69 0.40
19. Do you fail to recognize friends or relatives by sight? 165  7% 0.42 85 2% 0.27 0.33
20. Do you forget important phone-numbers or codes 163 29% 0.60 86 16% 0.57 0.33
21. Do you lose track of what someone is trying to tell you? Unable to follow the thread? 160 48% 0.74 80 29% 0.67 0.23
22. Do you get disturbed by others talking, when you are reading or watching TV? 165 67% 0.61 74 66% 0.48 0.55
Table 3: EEM items, percentage of patients and relatives who reported frequent memory problems (score 2, 3 or 4), correlations between each item and the scale mean for patients and relatives and correlations between patient and relative scores.