Data Scare

It contains standardized clinical and demographic data collected from 2,042 patients who called one of four French Emergency Medical Communication Centers (EMCCs: Angers, Orléans, Poitiers, and Tours) for non-traumatic chest pain between October 1, 2019, and February 25, 2020.Data Generation processingData Collection: The data were collected prospectively during emergency calls by trained EMCC dispatchers using a blinded standardized form (not showing SCARE score values).

The form included:Demographic information: Age, gender, smoking status.Clinical symptoms: Pain characteristics (suggestive of myocardial ischemia, inaugural pain), sweating, dispatcher’s assessment of AMI likelihood.Outcome data: Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), confirmed through hospital records and reviewed by an independent cardiologist using the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction (2018).SCARE Score Calculation: The SCARE score was calculated retrospectively for each patient based on the following variables:Male gender (10 points)Age (13 points for 43–57 years, 15 points for >57 years)Smoking status (8 points)Pain suggestive of myocardial ischemia (6 points)Inaugural pain (5 points)Sweating (7 points)Dispatcher’s conviction of AMI (11 points)Data Processing: The dataset was cleaned to remove incomplete entries and cross-verified with hospital records to confirm AMI diagnoses.