Table 4.

The top three association rules that our explanation ranking method produced for the fourth selected patient (patient 4). This patient satisfied condition 2.

Rank	Association rule	Confidence of the rule			Commonality of the rule (n=1184), n (%)
		Total, n	Value, n (%)
1	The patient had ≥7 EDa visits related to asthma during the past year AND the patient is single → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	37	34 (91.89)	34 (2.87)
2	The patient had between 9 and 17 primary or principal asthma diagnoses during the past year AND the patient’s most recent outpatient visit related to asthma was from ≥365 days ago → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	105	66 (62.86)	66 (5.57)
3	The patient had ≥28 asthma diagnoses during the past year AND the patient had no outpatient visit during the past year → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	19	16 (84.21)	16 (1.35)

^aED: emergency department.