MC-MED, multimodal clinical monitoring in the emergency department

Abstract

Emergency Department (ED) patients often present with undiagnosed complaints, and can exhibit rapidly evolving physiology. Therefore, data from continuous physiologic monitoring, in addition to the electronic health record, is essential to understand the acute course of illness and responses to interventions. The complexity of ED care and the large amount of unstructured multimodal data it produces have limited the accessibility of detailed ED data for research. We release Multimodal Clinical Monitoring in the Emergency Department (MC-MED), a comprehensive, multimodal, and de-identified clinical and physiological dataset. MC-MED includes 118,385 adult ED visits to an academic medical center from 2020 to 2022. Data include continuously monitored vital signs, physiologic waveforms (electrocardiogram, photoplethysmogram, respiration), patient demographics, medical histories, orders, medication administrations, laboratory and imaging results, and visit outcomes. MC-MED is the first dataset to combine detailed physiologic monitoring with clinical events and outcomes for a large, diverse ED population.