RCT aiTriage Chest Pain Risk Stratification

NCT ID: NCT07074808

Last Updated: 2026-01-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

1120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-11-11

Study Completion Date

2025-12-29

Brief Summary

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Chest pain is one of the most common reasons people visit the Emergency Department (ED). While most cases are not serious, a small number may lead to life-threatening heart problems, known as Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE). Emergency staff need to quickly identify these high-risk patients, but current methods often take time, involve lab tests, and strain already busy EDs.

In Singapore, for example, SGH sees over 120,000 ED patients a year. In the U.S., chest pain accounts for around 8-10 million ED visits annually, yet fewer than 10% are ultimately diagnosed with MACE. Still, over half of chest pain patients undergo extensive and costly testing, adding up to $10-13 billion each year. This over-testing is done to avoid missing a critical case, but it's inefficient and stressful for both staff and patients.

Traditional risk scoring tools like TIMI, GRACE, HEART, and EDACS require time and blood test results, delaying early intervention. Waiting times in EDs can be 1-2 hours, during which patient conditions may worsen unnoticed.

To address this, we've developed aiTriage, a portable device that uses AI to analyze heart rate variability, ECG readings, blood pressure, and oxygen levels. It provides a real-time risk score within 5 minutes, helping doctors decide which patients need urgent care. Unlike current methods, aiTriage works without waiting for lab tests and can ease the load on EDs.

No existing devices offer real-time MACE risk scoring like aiTriage. Our previous studies show that this system outperforms standard tools and could transform how chest pain is managed in emergency care, saving time, money, and lives.

Detailed Description

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Primary Aim

* To compare the admission rate defined as number of patients admitted/ all patients presenting to ED with chest pain (Inpatient admission or Emergency Observation Ward admission) of HRV guided accelerated diagnostic protocol (HRV-ADP) to the current standard protocol.
* To evaluate the implementation of HRV-ADP and understand the potential factors affecting implementation success in routine practice using the REAIM/PRISM framework

Secondary Aim

* To determine 30-day MACE between groups for discharged patients.
* To determine ED length of stay from registration to admission decision between groups.
* To calculate predicted aiTriage HRV-ADP admission rate vs actual (control group).

Primary Hypothesis - There will be a 10-20% reduction in admission rate with HRV-ADP comparing to the Standard protocol currently in practice.

Secondary Hypothesis

\- There is no increase in Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) between groups for discharged patients.

Conditions

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Chest Pain Emergencies

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

ADP vs Standard
Primary Study Purpose

SCREENING

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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HRV-ADP

Using aiTriage risk score for stratification

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

aiTriage risk score

Intervention Type DEVICE

Risk score generated by AI App aiTriage for chest pain patients

Standard Control

Standard control (no AI risk score)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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aiTriage risk score

Risk score generated by AI App aiTriage for chest pain patients

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All ED patients (≥21 years old) with chest pain suspected of having ACS will be eligible for being included in this study.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients who are not in sinus rhythm
* Patients who do not have mental capacity.
* Patients with unstable vital signs, STEMI, obvious ACS, and non cardiac cases like rib fractures, pneumothorax.
* Patients lost to follow- up or transferred to other hospitals within the 30 day time frame.
* Patients with a high percentage of artefacts and ectopics exceeding 30% of ECG recordings will be excluded.
Minimum Eligible Age

21 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Singapore General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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National University Hospital

Singapore, , Singapore

Site Status

Singapore General Hospital

Singapore, , Singapore

Site Status

Countries

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Singapore

References

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Mahler SA, Burke GL, Duncan PW, Case LD, Herrington DM, Riley RF, Wells BJ, Hiestand BC, Miller CD. HEART Pathway Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol Implementation: Prospective Pre-Post Interrupted Time Series Design and Methods. JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Jan 22;5(1):e10. doi: 10.2196/resprot.4802.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26800789 (View on PubMed)

Ong ME, Goh K, Fook-Chong S, Haaland B, Wai KL, Koh ZX, Shahidah N, Lin Z. Heart rate variability risk score for prediction of acute cardiac complications in ED patients with chest pain. Am J Emerg Med. 2013 Aug;31(8):1201-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.05.005. Epub 2013 Jun 10.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23763936 (View on PubMed)

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Other Identifiers

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CIRB 2022-2323

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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