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. 2019 May 6;2019:704–713.

Table 5.

AUC comparisons for different Medication and Diagnoses data representations

AUC / Sens / Spec DX RAW DX CONCEPT DX CLASS_LEV4 DX CLASS_LEV3 DX CLASS_LEV2 DX CLASS_LEV1
RX RAW 0.8594 / 0.7635 / 0.7797 0.8590 / 0.7471 / 0.7922 0.8607 / 0.7472 / 0.7946 0.8597 / 0.7538 / 0.7802 0.8592 / 0.7581 / 0.7798 0.8573 / 0.7829 / 0.7678
RX CONCEPT 0.8589 / 0.7537 / 0.7857 0.8601 / 0.7655 / 0.7741 0.8599 / 0.7488 / 0.7924 0.8595 / 0.7629 / 0.7777 0.8592 / 0.7617 / 0.7751 0.8578 / 0.7575 / 0.7498
RX CLASS_LEV4 0.8582 / 0.7641 / 0.7747 0.8624** / 0.7646 / 0.7786 0.8617* / 0.7730 / 0.7694 0.8610 / 0.7771 / 0.7640 0.8598 / 0.7701 / 0.7676 0.8573 / 0.7871 / 0.7600
RX CLASS_LEV3 0.8599 / 0.7646 / 0.7724 0.8616* / 0.7642 / 0.7754 0.8590 / 0.7604 / 0.7800 0.8605 0.7479 / 0.7895 0.8604 / 0.7577 / 0.7725 0.8584 / 0.7751 / 0.7747
RX CLASS_LEV2 0.8588 / 0.7502 / 0.7877 0.8608 / 0.7637 / 0.7812 0.8595 / 0.7634 / 0.7759 0.8614 / 0.7555 / 0.7853 0.8605 / 0.7626 / 0.7745 0.8573 / 0.7246 / 0.7732
RX CLASS_LEV1 0.8578 0.7705 / 0.7668 0.8589 / 0.7582 / 0.7792 0.8588 / 0.7605 / 0.7766 0.8589 / 0.7732 / 0.7656 0.8591 / 0.7635 / 0.7695 0.8568 / 0.7455 / 0.7542
*, **

suggest significant AUC increase over baseline model (DX RAW and RX RAW), where * indicates weak significance with p-value between 0.01 and 0.05 and ** indicates strong significance with p-value less than 0.01.