Table 3.

The top three association rules that our explanation ranking method produced for the third selected patient (patient 3). This patient satisfied condition 1.

Rank	Association rule	Confidence of the rule			Commonality of the rule (n=1184), n (%)
		Total, n	Value, n (%)
1	The patient’s most recent diagnosis of asthma with acute exacerbation or status asthmaticus was from ≤110 days ago AND the patient’s most recent visit was an EDa visit AND the patient had between 9 and 17 primary or principal asthma diagnoses during the past year → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	127	79 (62.2)	79 (6.67)
2	The patient had between 17 and 27 asthma diagnoses during the past year AND the patient’s most recent visit was an ED visit AND the patient had no visit to the primary care provider during the past year → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	68	38 (55.88)	38 (3.21)
3	The patient was prescribed ≥10 short-acting β-2 agonists during the past year AND the highest severity of all asthma diagnoses of the patient during the past year was moderate or severe persistent asthma AND the patient was allowed ≥34 medication refills during the past year AND the patient is ≤54 years old → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	40	20 (50)	20 (1.69)

^aED: emergency department.