Table 6.

The top three association rules that our explanation ranking method produced for the sixth selected patient (patient 6). This patient satisfied conditions 3 and 4.

Rank	Association rule	Confidence of the rule			Commonality of the rule (n=1184), n (%)
		Total, n	Value, n (%)
1	The patient had 2 or 3 EDa visits related to asthma during the past year AND the patient’s most recent outpatient visit related to asthma was from ≤104 days ago AND the patient was prescribed ≤2 inhaled corticosteroids during the past year AND the patient is ≤54 years old AND the patient’s relative change of weight during the past year was ≤3% → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	40	22 (55)	22 (1.86)
2	The patient had between 3 and 8 diagnoses of asthma with (acute) exacerbation during the past year AND the patient had 2 or 3 ED visits related to asthma during the past year AND the patient is not a White patient AND the patient was prescribed ≤2 distinct asthma medications 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.	25	14 (56)	14 (1.18)
3	The patient’s most recent outpatient visit related to asthma was from ≤104 days ago AND the patient had 2 or 3 ED visits related to asthma during the past year AND the patient was prescribed ≥1 unit of medications during the past year AND the patient had no public insurance on the last day of the past year AND the patient had between 1 and 13 outpatient visits during the past year → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	32	16 (50)	16 (1.35)

^aED: emergency department.