Validation of the HAR Score for Prioritization of Patients Calling the Emergency Medical Service for Chest Pain by Emergency Call Dispatcher

Launched by CENTRE HOSPITALIER LE MANS · Feb 28, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is looking at a new way to help emergency services prioritize calls from people experiencing chest pain. The study is testing a tool called the HAR score, which helps determine how serious a person's chest pain might be. The HAR score takes into account factors like the person's medical history, age, and risk factors to categorize the chest pain as low, intermediate, or high risk. This could help emergency medical dispatchers decide faster whether to send help or if the response can wait a bit longer, especially since not all chest pain is caused by serious heart issues.

To participate in the trial, you must be at least 18 years old and calling from specific areas in France (departments 49, 72, or 37) while experiencing non-traumatic chest pain. However, there are some exclusions, such as if you are receiving treatment elsewhere or cannot communicate in French. If you join the study, you will undergo an assessment using the HAR score, and the goal is to improve how emergency services respond to calls about chest pain, which could ultimately save lives by ensuring timely care for those who need it most.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patient of legal age (≥ 18 years)
• • Calling Center 15 from 49, 72 or 37
• • Expressing non-traumatic chest pain, even if this is not the main reason for seeking help.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Treatment in departments other than 49, 72 and 37
• • Taken in charge in an emergency department of a private facility in the 49, 72 and 37 départements
• • Poor understanding of the French language
• • Non-affiliated or non-beneficiary of a social security scheme
• • Person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision
• • Person under forced psychiatric care
• • Person subject to a legal protection measure
• • Person unable to express his/her non-opposition.
• • Follow-up at Day 30 impossible for any reason
• • Person having expressed his/her opposition to the collection of his/her data.